Company moves operations to the enterprise sector only

Aug 2, 2016 09:22 GMT  ·  By

GhostMail, an encrypted chat and email service based in Switzerland, has announced it is closing operations for normal users on September 1, 2016, so it could focus on the enterprise market.

While this is not anything out of the ordinary, since companies often shift business focus based on their clients, the wording in GhostMail's announcement has made many take notice of their change in operations.

The company called their move to the enterprise sector a "strategic decision," mainly because "the world has changed for the worse" and they don't "want to take the risk of supplying our extremely secure service to the wrong people."

What GhostMail's owners might actually be saying between the lines is that they're not fully comfortable with criminals using their network to commit crimes.

Anonymous and secure email providers such as GhostMail or Protonmail have been found many times in ransomware notes, with crooks asking victims to contact them via one of these services to receive payment details.

Similarly, hacking crews extorting companies with DDoS attacks or the threat of releasing private data stolen in data breaches also use GhostMail and Protonmail's service.

As such, to be on the safe side of things, GhostMail's admins decided to gather up their toys and play only with the enterprise sector, where the chances of having police officers knock on their doors and seize servers are much, much lower.

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