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TIL when the head of The Piratebay, Peter Sunde, was arrested he asked to phone his girlfriend so she could lock the doors of his house before going with the policeman. The policeman said yes. Instead, he pushed a button on an app that immediately encrypted all servers of The Piratebay.

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