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One argument that Patrick @ Atomic22 puts forward is that bikes are increasingly "professionally stolen" to be stripped and the parts sold on, as they're generally untraceable. In which case if you have very obvious security bolts on everything, that might dissuade a professional thief more than using a very strong lock, since they wouldn't care about cutting through the frame just to steal the parts. So I can see the rationale there. But then (as Patrick acknowledges) the thief might not notice the security bolts, or realise how effective they are, until after they've stolen the bike anyway.
You're effectively betting on the chance of the bike being stolen and/or the type of thief the bike meets vs. the amount the bike has cost you plus the amount of money you spend protecting it (as Velocio was discussing earlier in the thread). There's a balance to be struck, and for me I'd rather just not run bling wheels than spend as much as they're worth again on security bolts, and then end up losing the whole bike one day anyway.