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TSA and airlines use Soundex to match terrorist names
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:01 +0100
___ Dave Farber +1 412 726 9889 ...... Forwarded Message ....... From: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins () gmail com> To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 05:54:41 -0400 Subj: TSA and airlines use Soundex to match terrorist names The Washington Post reports that TSA uses a scheme based on the ancient (1918) Soundex algorithm to vet airline passenger names against its list of terrorists: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18735-2004Oct8_2.html The article also says that travelers who had false positives were able to pass screening by adding their middle names or middle initials when purchasing tickets. Clearly the matching is primitive. /rich ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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