Originally Posted by IceIridium

Actually, I did pull the wire right out. But then afterwards I read the IS-F service manual and it clearly indicates the wire is the cancellation feature for the auto-destruct sequence. Which means if I accidentally set off the real trigger (dialing the "funky town" tone on the bluetooth) there would be no way to cancel it and I would just have to run my *** away from my car as fast as humanly possible before... *boom*