Son Nguyen used to work for an advertising company tracking users online. Now he builds privacy-enhancing tools like SimpleLogin to protect your online accounts. In this video, Son walks us through his email service and shares his journey on becoming a web app developer.

SimpleLogin is an open-source, masked email service that you can self-host. Unlike many other services, it generates email aliases so you can also reply to senders.

Using unique emails is just as important as using a unique password for everything.

Besides reducing spam, a masked email for every account also helps mitigate phishing attacks. Companies suffer data breaches all the time. This results in your true emails getting leaked and harvested by cyber criminals on the dark/gray internet.

SimpleLogin is also useful for parents looking to keep their children safe. You can set multiple destination inboxes to forward emails to. One for your own inbox, and one for your loved one. This way, their true emails are protected, while you get to see potentially malicious messages sent to them.

One unique feature of SimpleLogin is that it supports GPG encryption. This offers end-to-end encryption between their forwarding servers and your email provider.

This makes it so that your provider (like Gmail) cannot scan and access it. All you need is a GPG browser extension like Mailvelope to access everything. This is great for adding an extra layer of privacy and security for your online accounts that normally sends unencrypted emails.

One of the most challenging aspects of maintaining SimpleLogin for Son and his team is dealing with abuse. Providing a masked email service can be a double-edged sword, since spammers and normal people can all use it alike. It’s all in the intent. SimpleLogin uses well-tuned Postfix filters and SpamAssassin rules as part of the fight.

Highly recommend you go support SimpleLogin and Son by checking out their service sometime.

https://simplelogin.io

00:00 Introduction - Son Nguyen
00:31 A Guided Walkthrough Tour of SimpleLogin
08:17 How SimpleLogin Came About
08:56 Staying Secure Online with SimpleLogin
12:10 How to Protect Your Kids Online with SimpleLogin
14:36 How is SimpleLogin Different From A Burner Email Address?
15:39 GPG Encryption Support In SimpleLogin
18:34 Protecting SimpleLogin From Abuse
20:03 Son’s Journey to Becoming a Software Engineer
21:52 Advice for Aspiring Web App Developers
24:54 Living the Lockdown Life in Paris

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