> (albeit I don't see why they needed 50 officers to take away 2 computer nerds)
To start with, it was actually 3 nerds, according to the swedish newspapers.:)
According to the same newspapers, the police were not sure where the hardware they were looking for was located, so they searched approx 12 different places in different parts of Sweden at the same time. I guess that if you're going to take 3 people into custody and search for hardware at 12 different sites, it probably takes about 50 people to do that efficently. (Servers might be heavy, you don't want to go in alone, etc etc).
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> (albeit I don't see why they needed 50 officers to take away 2 computer nerds)
:)
To start with, it was actually 3 nerds, according to the swedish newspapers.
According to the same newspapers, the police were not sure where the hardware they were looking for was located, so they searched approx 12 different places in different parts of Sweden at the same time. I guess that if you're going to take 3 people into custody and search for hardware at 12 different sites, it probably takes about 50 people to do that efficently. (Servers might be heavy, you don't want to go in alone, etc etc).