How to Sanity Check Your Phone at the Airport

Several times at different airports as I'm passing through the security person Asked To see my phone. They did not ask me to unlock the phone or anything, but they said We need to see your phone so we can run it through a bomb scanner machine. This was not International this didn't happen while he was doing the coming into when coming out of the country thing which is a bit of a legal gray area. So what I think People have told me I'm crazy paranoid, but I think this is the thin end of the wedge To getting people used to Handing over their phones That like the bomb detector It's all a red herring The real thing that they're trying to get you