A consumer would like to print photographs stored on a cloud storage account using a third party online printing service. After successfully logging into the cloud account, the customer is automatically given access to the third party online printing service. What allowed this automatic authentication to occur?

A consumer would like to print photographs stored on a cloud storage account using a third party online printing service. After successfully logging into the cloud account, the customer is automatically given access to the third party online printing service. What allowed this automatic authentication to occur?

• The user is on an unencrypted network and the password for the cloud storage service is viewable by the online printing service.
• The cloud storage service is an approved application for the online printing service.
• The password entered by the user for the online printing service is the same as the password used on the cloud storage service.
• The account information for the cloud storage service was intercepted by a malicious application.

Explanation: Open Authorization is an open standard protocol that allows end users to access third party applications without exposing the user password.

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