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  2. WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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    WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [14] It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, [15] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

  3. Reception and criticism of WhatsApp security and privacy ...

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    WhatsApp also uses artificial intelligence systems to scan unencrypted data collected from users (profile image and status; phone number, IMEI and OS; names and images of the user's WhatsApp groups; a list of the user's electronic devices [clarification needed]; any Facebook or Instagram accounts) and compares it against suspicious patterns or ...

  4. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3:1:1) in black ...

  5. Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients

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    Examples of such messaging services include: Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts (subsequently Google Chat), Telegram, ICQ, Element, Slack, Discord, etc. Users have more options as usernames or email addresses can be used as user identifiers, besides phone numbers. Unlike the phone-based model, user accounts on a multi-device model are ...

  6. File:WhatsApp.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:WhatsApp.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 512 × 513 pixels. Other resolutions: 240 × 240 pixels | 479 × 480 pixels | 767 × 768 pixels | 1,022 × 1,024 pixels | 2,044 × 2,048 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 512 × 513 pixels, file size: 2 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.

  7. Cellphone surveillance - Wikipedia

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    Cellphone surveillance. Diagram showing the operation of a StingRay device for cellphone surveillance. Cellphone surveillance (also known as cellphone spying) may involve tracking, bugging, monitoring, eavesdropping, and recording conversations and text messages on mobile phones. [1] It also encompasses the monitoring of people's movements ...

  8. Session hijacking - Wikipedia

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    Session hijacking. 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 ...

  9. Wiretapping - Wikipedia

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    Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means.The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on an analog telephone or telegraph line.