Comment by bsder

> I can't imagine many would attempt to stop you.

You would be 99% wrong. Even if law enforcment presented proper paperwork, every colo I have ever used would call and verify the paperwork. They might not call me, but they sure as hell would call their own lawyers. Once law enforcement is on the other side of the cage, important customers who pay real money could get compromised.

There is a massive difference between getting physical access to your server in a data center and coughing up everything about your server by simply emailing a minion in a cloud provider.