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There is a legal concept called adverse inference. It is based on the premise that you wouldn't destroy evidence that would be beneficial to you. In addition to

• eyelidlessness 5y ago
  There are many actors one might comply with who aren’t law enforcement and to whom you may prefer granting access to garbage rather than the thing they’re seeking. I think the vast majority of people with debit cards would be comforted with the idea of being able to give a thief a PIN which doesn’t empty their bank account… even if they never get around to setting one up. No one would think people who do are up to something nefarious. The same goes for protecting oneself from abusers in one’s home. The set of reasons one might want this are so commonplace that the most widely used devices are set up to lock or wipe on failed login attempts either by default or by easy configuration.