I think in most cases the thermite trap would probably get you into more trouble for ATF violations and not even help by adding destruction of evidence and what

I think in most cases the thermite trap would probably get you into more trouble for ATF violations and not even help by adding destruction of evidence and whatever they imagined was on the drive unless you had some authority like security clearence and classified documents or some sort of legal pretext to justify uses of such flammable boobytraps.