> Are they legally prohibited from doing so?
Yes. They can be charged with obstruction of justice or interfering with an investigation.
Yes. They can be charged with obstruction of justice or interfering with an investigation.
On the contrary, it makes perfect sense. It gives the FBI or any law enforcement agency sufficient leeway to do as they please, which is always the intent of such laws.
> The client is going to figure it out.
The only thing the client knows is that their server isn't working. Not that they are about to be raped by the feds.
2) In this case the Feds had already paid them a visit. If they are trying to run a covert surveillance operation they really suck at it. Even without the FBI visit I am still going to figure out what the hell happened to my server.
Worst wire tap job ever? Helpful FBI agents with experience in network operations want to make up for needlessly inconveniencing someone? Some other three letter agency tells them, "we were using that, could you put it back?" ?