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The answer to your question was shown in code and also explicitly stated in English in the article.

Edit: removed the “did you read the article?” part

(1) is the bug - you aren't supposed to be able to. the password was copied into a cleartext hint field.

(2) you should be fine if you reset your password and hint.

If I understand the blog post correctly, the bug was in the software that creates (or maybe mounts? Not too clear about that) the encrypted volume. It needs to have the clear-text password in order to function.

Then it proceeded to set the clear-text password as a password hint due to the bug.

1. The disk password cannot be retrieved. The bug occurred when creating a new encrypted volume - the password was copied in to the hint field as well as the password field.

2. Changing your password with the updated disk utility will fix the issue.