If they are worried about user experience and that is the main reason they do no...

cao825 on Feb 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Plenty Of Fish Stores Passwords in Plain Text

If they are worried about user experience and that is the main reason they do not encrypt - then why not at the very least use a version of encryption that the site can decrypt? Sure, the people who grab the data can run some cryptography programs on it and eventually come up with the algorithm, but it is a hell of a lot safer than plain text.

zaidf on Feb 4, 2011 [–]

We don't really know if they are encrypting the password while storing in the db.