I use a small non TSA combination lock on my carry on and my attaché case has a built in combination lock and they are both locked before I go through the checkpoint, this prevents the screeners from opening any of my carry on’s before I am able to get to the inspection table.

Everything on me goes into my attaché case including my wallet and watch so I have absolutely nothing on me except my boarding pass if needed, so the screeners don’t have access to my wallet with the pretext of needing re-screening so they can count my money or look at my credit cards.

I always ask the screeners to change their gloves and now pre test their gloves for ETD before I give them the combination. I feel by doing this primarily prevents any false positives that would require more invasive screening and also prevents any chance of a screener stealing anything out of my carry on, I am not saying all screeners are thieves, but there have been way to many thefts at the checkpoint lately so I just do not trust any screener opening my carry on without me standing there watching them very closely.

Mr. Elliott