I noticed "president-Elect" jJoe tweeted yesterday about, "Getting back to normal".
I wonder what he meant by that?
Looks like "normal" can be turned on or off depending on what TPTB likes or not.
I think they could look inside those machines via SSH. If new machines are windows 10, SSH is built-in, although optional. Older versions can be modified to run SSH.
If they have the internet transfer data, they have the router's IP. My guess is the local machines are on a LAN behind the router, and the router connects to servers via a VPN. That means anyone with VPN access credentials can work on the local machines as if they were on a local LAN. Only need to have the router IP and VPN credentials.
Purpose of server confiscation may be to prove local machines were accessed and manipulated from overseas. It's not an IP number anymore, it's a piece of hardware that can be analyzed. Add to that, with virtualization, that one server could be operating with multiple IPs. Now, with the hardware, they can connect any IP to a physical piece of evidence.