Also there's always the risk that the bolt cutter has a defect (perhaps deliberately introduced at some point when it was manufactured) which will cause you more damage than the thing you're trying to prevent by carrying it.

I'm personally a bit wary of introducing a relatively obscure security tool into my setup, to protect against a rare possible attack. The chance that I'll get caught copy-pasting a compromised URL into my terminal is fairly small, and there's also a small chance I'll compromise my system either now or at some later point via a supply chain attack if I use the tool. Which chance is bigger?