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>It would be obstruction, not destruction.

It is obstruction in the same way that requesting a warrant before handing over evidence is obstruction.

Your comment is purposefully obtuse and meaningless. Obstruction via exercising your 4th amendment right in the US is legal, because that's what being a right means. Refusing to comply with a court order to unlock your phone is still illegal.

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