Because booby traps are illegal and wiping your phone doesn’t kill or maim the officer

I fully agree but that is a different argument than the one mingus88 presented. They suggested that the owner did not wipe the device because they did not actively enter the pin, which seems to be a flawed idea because legally intent matters.

	▲	fluoridation 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		They're still fundamentally different questions. Rigging up a bomb to a safe is already illegal, even if the bomb never goes off. Setting up a phone to destroy its own data under certain conditions is not.