This 16-Year-Old Wants To Make Email More Secure Than Ever
In the next two weeks, Abe Storey is aiming to launch his latest startup, an email product called Lock Up Mail.
He’s on a self-imposed time crunch, because after that, he’s starting his junior year of high school. “In its most simple form, locked Up Mail is two things. One, it’s super secure email. The other is a new authentication system,” Storey told Business Insider.
The San Francisco-based 16-year-old explained how both will work. When you sign up for Locked Up Mail, you do so with a username and password, just like Gmail, Yahoo, or any other email service. Then Locked Up Mail sends you a QR code image, which Storey says will self delete after 10 minutes. That’s the difference between Locked Up Mail and the others: You need that QR code to get into your email account.
