No, I get what you are saying, I just don't see where you feel that the TSA is responsible for your belongings if they are stolen, locked or not. Once they are turned over to the airline, TSA has no more control over them. Any airline employee could steal your entire bag and the TSA would get the blame. Who was responsible for that before TSA started screening bags on 1/1/03? Were the private screeners responsible for all thefts? Locks will not stop anyone from getting into your bag and stealing something. By the reasoning here, if you do lock your bag, it goes through security, is NOT opened by the TSA, but someone gets into it anyway and steals something, the TSA is still responsible? I certainly hope that is not what I am reading here, but it does sound like it.

If someone breaks into my car and steals something, do I hold the mall/store I was parked at responsible? No company/organization holds themselves responsible for loss of personal property and posts that everywhere. Granted, they don't require you to keep your car unlocked, but the TSA only requests that you not lock your bag, they cannot keep you from doing so from what I have read.

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Edited for spelling.

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