Browser extension boosts the security of WhatsApp on the web

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Are you using WhatsApp on your computer? Now you can find out if your account has been hacked or tampered with. The Meta group has teamed up with a security service to create an extension that can verify the authenticity of the connection to your WhatsApp account by checking the code being served to your browser. Here's how it works.

browsers. "No other end-to-end encrypted messaging service has this level of security for people's communications on the web. In addition to deploying Code Verify for WhatsApp Web, it is also being offered as open source so that other services can use it as well," explains Meta in aTo use the extension, users simply have to pin it to their browser's toolbar.

Code Verify uses a color code system to alert users. Green indicates that there is no violation, orange advises users to refresh the page and alerts them that another extension may be interfering with Code Verify's checks. Finally, red indicates a problem with the code sent by WhatsApp Web.

 

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