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> Huh? Why all the downvotes all of a sudden?

Because the whole point of the article is that there was no data to be compromised. If anything this should make you more likely to go with Mullvad if you're looking for VPN services.

Reading no more than the title, making up the article content in your mind, and writing a comment based on that made up content is a pretty good recipe for downvotes.

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> Because the whole point of the article is that there was no data to be compromised.

AND they were able to convince the police and prosecutor of that!

I have to wonder what would have happened had the same thing occurred in the US. I'm really struggling to think of a scenario where the police have a warrant that says "$THING is on computers at this company, go get them" and you have literally any chance of convincing them that $THING is not anywhere.

I could see them taking all the computers then six months later saying "here you can have them back now, come pick them up at the precinct and here's the storage bill."

I would half expect them to sue the computers for obstruction of justice... and then just keep them.

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