If the latter, the server would probably be okay, and it would take a very long time for the termites to damage the surrounding room enough to be a security deterrent.
Nobody I know who got arrested ever managed to destroy anything. When I think about it, we all assumed the cops would storm in when we were in the act of doing something bad, probably like in the movies lol, when in practice, they tend to pick you up when you are really off guard, duh.
Very few people had automatic protections because like, our parents would probably get mad if we burned down the house :)
When it came to me, the FBI did knock on my front door, and I managed to dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
I lost my entire BBS, all the custom code and ANSI I had for it, among other ancient treasures that I'd probably still have with my napster mp3s :)
Of course they didn't come for me, there had been a flasher in the neighborhood on halloween...
When I was a teen, I somehow got a modem number at NASA, and I stupidly gave it to a friend. He tried to brute force it, but he got door knocked. He quickly formatted his disks, but it wasn’t even the cops haha!
After 18, you're done, even if they can't think of a good charge, they'll make them up, which is exactly what they did back then, cross state commerce was a blanket thing to grab folks.
I stopped doing anything questionable well before I turned 18.
Today, you should encrypt everything, and cut power before physical access is obtained. Will that count as "tampering"? I was just turning off my computer. No, I do not remember the key.
In practice, the only real protection we had (those of us in my social group) was that we were minors, and lucky that laws hadn't caught up yet.
If I delete a file on my computer today that would be potentially "evidence" if seized, and the police come knocking tomorrow, I haven't committed a crime by using my personal computer in the past.
I only saw people in suits with a black car outside knocking on the door, also this was like 30 years ago so don't twist my arm :)
... I don’t know of anyone actually implementing this though :)