“(Security) had no idea what they were looking for,” said Korvin Szanto, of Portland, Ore. “They knocked and came in, and showed me a big, long list of stuff that they wanted to look for. It had things like random cables and a USB thumb drive. I said ‘You have these things.’”

Szanto took the hotel room inspection in stride. As a multiple-time attendee of Def Con, the longest-running and largest hacking conference in the United States, he said other Las Vegas casino hotels have done similar searches in years past.

Hotel room inspections in Las Vegas have become more commonplace after the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in 2017.

“It’s typical. It’s happened to me before at Paris and at Caesars (Palace),” Szanto said.