The first line of the post: "On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad V

The first line of the post: "On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant." 1) The government put together the cause/case for a warrant. 2) They got it issued. 3) They showed up with six cops from the national police. That doesn't sound like the setting for a "technical discussion" between two old friends to me... Have you ever seen a search warrant involving anything technical/electronic executed? They're looking for data and there's no way to know for sure where that data is/might be from anywhere from a single cell phone to a server farm. They show up and take anything/everything electronic (usually enumerated in the search warrant like "storage media, computing devices, etc, etc"). They walk out with it, take it back to a certified technician of some sort to clone/image it for evidentiary purposes, and then maybe give it back at some point (depending on the situation).