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Versions of web-based mobile apps such as WhatsApp do not pass through the security verification protocols that exist on the phone and are therefore vulnerable to various risks. Essentially, cybercriminals could exploit this vulnerability to create a fake web-based version of the application for espionage purposes.Non-authentic versions of applications can be difficult to detect, which is code validation Come in.

This simple extension for Google Chrome adds a new layer of security to your browser when opening Javascript-based web applications such as WhatsApp Web. With the help of this plugin you can check the authenticity of your WhatsApp client.

Check the authenticity of the access code

When activated, Code Verification will notify you if the WhatsApp Web version is not authentic or has been tampered with in any way. How does it do it, you may ask? continue reading.

Well, this extension was created by META in partnership with Cloudflare, a company that helps deliver secure web content. Code Verify is designed to verify that all users of WhatsApp Web access the same code, bringing security protocols on mobile platforms to the web-based version.

More specifically, the extension compares the code you access on WhatsApp on the web with the source code posted on Cloudflare. Code Validation will alert you immediately if any discrepancies are found. Reference sources are updated along with WhatsApp, so there should be no errors or omissions.

Check the authenticity of web applications

The browser extension is completely independent of the WhatsApp client to remove all doubts. Although this extension was created by META for WhatsApp, it is open source so any other company can use it to implement web binary transparency for their own applications, allowing their users to be sure that their web applications are authentic .