Left: Opera Mini will offer to store passwords for you.

Cookies can also store passwords and forms a user has previously entered, such as a credit card number or an address.

Applications can store and request passwords by using the libgnome-keyring library.

There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for storing plaintext passwords.

It's 2011 and they are storing passwords in plaintext.

They don't store passwords in clear text on the drive.

I'm currently storing passwords in an encrypted text file.

So was it "just an error" that they stored passwords in plain text?

As a developer I don't have to store passwords.