Clarification via @KenDilanianNBC: While Bitcoin isn’t stored on a server, the private keys to unlock the Bitcoin may have been. In any event, an FBI official just told reporters that it doesn’t matter where the Bitcoin wallet is—the FBI still can get access. They won’t say how.
First of all, I want to introduce a concept I call "freedom through turing completeness".
* It is easy to allow people to do nothing
* It is easy ..... a few things
* It is easy ..... everything
* It is very very hard to allow people to do everything *but* a few things