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2. WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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   WhatsApp Web's user interface is based on the default Android one and can be accessed through web.whatsapp.com. Access is granted after the users scan their personal QR code through their mobile WhatsApp application. There are similar solutions for macOS, such as the open-source ChitChat, previously known as WhatsMac.

3. QR code - Wikipedia

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   Website login. QR codes can be used to log into websites: a QR code is shown on the login page on a computer screen, and when a registered user scans it with a verified smartphone, they will automatically be logged in. Authentication is performed by the smartphone, which contacts the server. Google developed this in 2012.

4. WhatsApp makes it harder for scammers to steal your account - AOL

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   WhatsApp's new Account Protect feature will ask you to use your old device to verify when you ... verifying your connection with someone involves either scanning a QR code or comparing a 60-digit ...

5. The Jester (hacktivist) - Wikipedia

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   On March 5, 2012, The Jester changed his Twitter account avatar from his signature Jester icon to a QR code without comment or explanation. Scanning a QR code redirects a browser to a website. Scanning The Jester's icon led to a URL where he had an image of his signature Jester icon and an embedded, hidden code that allegedly exploited a ...

6. Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients

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   The secondary device is a computer running a desktop operating system, which serves as a companion for the primary device. Desktop messaging clients on secondary devices do not function independently, as they are reliant on the mobile phone maintaining an active network connection for login authentication and syncing messages.

7. Timeline of WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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   Timeline of WhatsApp. The following is a timeline of WhatsApp, a proprietary cross-platform, encrypted, instant messaging client for smartphones. [1] Jan Koum incorporates WhatsApp in USA. [2] WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. [3]

8. Session hijacking - Wikipedia

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   In computer science, session hijacking, sometimes also known as cookie hijacking, is the exploitation of a valid computer session—sometimes also called a session key—to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. In particular, it is used to refer to the theft of a magic cookie used to authenticate a user to a ...

9. Multi-factor authentication - Wikipedia

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   Perhaps, apart from the third-party applications, users should use a user authentication technique which enables users to log into their account without necessarily having to memorize their passwords. Users ought to use a scan using QR code then verify an image using the smartphone and then send it to the smartphone using push notification.