Maybe vandals take things apart. I've never seen the Torx with pin in anything but the bike stuff.
OTOH- lots of public stuff in the NYC area is assembled with Prison Bolts, so vandalism or theft must be issues. People take anything, NYC subways buy special lightbulbs made with left hand threads.
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