Mask Your Emails with SimpleLogin (w/ Son Nguyen)

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.
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
#SimpleLogin #Privacy #Cyberspatial

[@Cyberspatial]

What’s your go-to email masking service?

[@yourfellowhumanbeing2323]

I think AnonAddy wins on the FREE side, while SimpleLogin is a slightly better choice on the PRO/PREMIUM side. But in my opinion AnonAddy's LITE plan has the best value for the average user, and as long as SimpleLogin won't provide a plan between FREE and PREMIUM, this probably will be the case.

[@illuminated2438]

Currently using 33mail, it's quite handy.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

Well, it was SimpleLogin so...this is awkward.

[@zuberkariye2299]

Could this help me cuz I tried to use diff email for diff websites but that will hard remember every email along the password, I just gained something useful and helpful from you, thanks a lot man!

[@Cyberspatial]

@@yourfellowhumanbeing2323 It's never a bad idea to hedge your bets with both!

[@manikjassal]

Very interesting interview - Several observations. 1. Son is brilliant; I don't even understand all the things his software does let alone being able to use it properly. 2. Ricky, you are a great interviewer. and 3. I need to up my game with security and privacy to protect myself and my family.

[@Cyberspatial]

Son is a great guy. Really humble too. And, thanks so much, glad it helped!

[@hengxiao4290]

Simple Login has been a life saver for me tbh. Before I was plagued by so many spam e-mails, now I do a dummy and kill it when it has fulfilled its purpose. I didn't hesitate to sign up for the premium service despite not needing it, because I firmly believe that privacy-friendly alternatives should be supported.

[@Cyberspatial]

That's awesome to hear! I like paying for smaller projects since it really goes a long way to support them. Take a look at AnonAddy as well for an alternative.

[@johndavy3820]

Hi Ricky, Great interview! Good job John

[@reziiwastaken]

Thank you for uploading this!

[@Cyberspatial]

Welcome :)

[@poulpette_delamare]

Pretty interesting. Thanks for this video. I have a question, though. Since one obviously has to create an account, one has to provide an email address. Hence it could end up in a data breach. So would the trick be to use a unique address or an alias to register, then to use another unique address to forward the emails to?

[@garthdalesuazo1077]

Thanks for your sharing ricky!

[@Cyberspatial]

You're welcome!

[@rebootlinux608]

Thank you for the awesome content. I am in my first year of computer science and there is so much to learn. I want to be a cyber security expert one day hopefully it works.

[@Cyberspatial]

Awesome to hear! I'm sure you'll get there!

[@rebootlinux608]

@@Cyberspatial Wow you responded thanks mate !

[@lhommeaumasquedefer6920]

Thanks and Happy New Year!

[@Cyberspatial]

Welcome and happy new year too!

[@lhommeaumasquedefer6920]

@@Cyberspatial thanks and best wishes for development and success

[@mrmozai]

Would you consider making a video on Yubi key or 2Fa? If it's not feasible that's fine. Thanks for all your videos!

[@Cyberspatial]

Awesome idea. Will consider it, thank you :)

[@PhillyGirl60]

Looks like a good idea, but too complicated for me.

[@jermm2183]

one question I’d like to ask to people far smarter than me, why use an extension? From what I’ve been taught, using extensions can subject you to being fingerprinted

[@valeenoi2284]

Now SimpleLogin is going to have all your email information. Great!

[@valeenoi2284]

@Abdul They will sell it to spammers and hackers, you sucker.

[@cori1302]

Do they keep logs?

[@valeenoi2284]

@@cori1302 They store the email till it gets delivered to its destination. Then it gets deleted. If it fails to deliver, they keep it around for 7 days and reattempt to send it to the destination, then it gets deleted. They keep information such as the sender and receiver email addresses, but not the content of the email, except for the scenario I mentioned above. Of course, they do log the IP for other monitoring reasons.

[@joelstephenson8017]

What browser should I use when using email?

[@nawid1687]

Hope your email address wasnt a secret Ricky, because if it was, we all know it now.

[@Cyberspatial]

Just a demo one 👍

[@nawid1687]

@@Cyberspatial Nice, my Email Address was leaked once and it was an ABSOLUTE Nightmare. Good thing yours is just a Demo, it sure as hell looks like a real one.

[@Oneofakind123]

What stops SimpleLogIn to bcc any highest bidder?

[@JarppaGuru]

online privacy is use junkmail allways

[@jaythay4716]

Started out with a good cause, but then got bought by Protonmail

[@irajkhodapanah7755]

how can toch what you?

[@agent_w.]

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[@Cyberspatial]

y

[@aiheyuer8627]

Your guest's voice is not as clear as yours.

[@Cyberspatial]

Yeah, hope the captions help.

[@JA-yy6bd]

Does email address leave trail to your IP address?

[@ThePharaohsCat]

Too much friction

[@Cyberspatial]

How so?