Authentication when browsing the web

[Guest]

Can anyone tell me what is the right answer for this question
I was told the answer is B but I does not seem right.

You recently bought a retail copy of Windows XP Professional for your own personal home use. You enjoy using it and are learning new features. As you surf the Web, you notice that you have to authenticate and reauthenticate at several different sites. What can you do so that you might not have to authenticate and reauthenticate at different Web sites?
A-Enable cookies in your browser
B-Sign up for .NET Passport services
C-Disable cookies in your browser
D-Set the security level for the Internet zone to Low

 

[David Dickinson]

Passport is useful (and not recommended by this paranoid
writer) only on web sites that subscribe to Passport
services (which this writer believes is intended to be the
database which conquers the world).

Some web sites will allow you to store your logon id and
password in a cookie, which often is not secured. The
logon web page for such a site will read this cookie and,
if it finds your logon information, will complete the
process automatically. Disabling cookies will disable
this service. Using such cookies to login to unsecured
web sites (URNs that don't begin with https://) is NOT
recommended since your ID and password will be transmitted
in plain text.

Setting the security level of the Internet Zone to low has
nothing to do with this issue and definitely is NOT
recommended.

David Dickinson
eveningstar at mvps dot org
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