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For Rui Pinto, it is a measure of a return to normal life. All the more so because much of the rest of Portugal’s 10 million inhabitants are also confined to their homes under restrictions imposed to halt the spread of coronavirus.
In recent years, Pinto, the Portuguese computer hacker, has garnered almost as much attention as the country’s most famous soccer stars, some of whose secrets he revealed in a startling series of leaks that shook the global soccer industry and beyond for almost four years until he was apprehended in Budapest and extradited to Portugal to answer 147 charges.