Whoa. TSOs aren't bound to keep passengers' personal property confidential when they inspect it? Sometimes I fly with confidential engineering prototypes which I'm bound not to make public. Do I need to stop doing this? It seems so, since there are many Internet rumor forums relating to my industry, and nothing is to stop the TSO from posting there as SMF TSO just did here.

And if someone made public that I regularly traveled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash in my bags, that could create a serious threat to my own personal safety. Remember, robbers kill far more people than terrorists do, and the TSA's job is to keep passengers safe.

I would think that even public figures should still be able to expect the contents of their bags to be private at the checkpoint - and that reasonable people wouldn't disclose information that threatens someone's personal safety.