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Re:Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant by pdpi on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:08AM (#35639360)
Police got a warrant and went to service it, Mullvad explained why it was pointless, police agreed and left without further incident. It's not "a huge disconnect", it's the system working exactly as I'd hope for.
Re:Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant by formerly_proven on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:23AM (#35639550)
Police doesn't (can't) make these kinds of decisions, they communicated with the prosecutor and the prosecutor withdrew his warrant. Which actually does seem very out of the ordinary to me. Might've been the warrant was acquired on autopilot with no one actually checking the targeted entity (e.g. crime committed, IP traced, get warrant for IP "end-user", police show up, "oh we've gotten a warrant for an ISP oops").