[acdha]

> In your examples none of them invole solving problems that you would not be unaware of, in ways that you're not aware of without telling you they were there and oh btw they had to rifle through your undwrware drawer to fix it.

It’s pretty common for there to be problems the owner can’t be reached for - people travel, get hospitalized, die, etc. - but that doesn’t prevent action. What it can do is limit what they’re allowed to bring charges for – in your example, if they said they were pursuing reports of squatters in your house they couldn’t search inside your dresser since that’s not in plain sight.

In this case, I would expect that courts would give the FBI considerable leeway for neutralizing a system which is being actively used to commit crimes but not to check your private data to see if you were cheating on your taxes.