Lock system for pods.

[Captain_Bravo]

Just take the pod, fly it outside a random airlock, and sprint for the door. People look through windows and check the podbay occasionally, if someone sees a free pod they're going to take it. There's much less chance a random assistant is going to say to himself "Hmm... I think I should jump out this airlock on the off chance a pod is waiting out there for me to steal."