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A Texas-based software company is offering a free tool allowing web users to check

the likelihood of a particular name being flagged up by US government's

Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), the body which operates the infamous

"No Fly" list.

Lists of terrorist names have circulated widely in recent months, and it has also

been reported by the Washington Post among others that various US agencies use

the Soundex algorithm to assess names. Soundex-based software can be used to

search a list of names – for example, an airline passenger list – and throw up

possible matches. For example, "Osama" might be read by Soundex to match

against "Osama", "Osamu" or "Osman." Thus, if any of those three names appeared

on a passenger list – especially in combination with a surname such as "bin Laden"

or "Binladen" the chance of the feds taking an interest would be high.

Engineers at S3 Matching Technologies have put together their own Soundex-based

engine and loaded in "a compilation of the best available data regarding suspected

and known terrorists. Publicly available terrorist names from various reliable

government and non-governmental sources were merged to create a comprehensive

list." They claim that their website list is constantly updated, just like the TSA's.

Users can put in any name they like. If both first and last names throw up a red

terrorist-related connection, S3 reckon there's a sporting chance that an individual

with that name will be on the TSA's Watch List.

S3 are providing this service so as to publicise their alternative to Soundex, a

proprietary system called TeraMatch. S3 naturally consider their kit to be much

more accurate and less likely to throw up false positives.

El Reg has naturally tested a few obvious names on the site. Ones which throw up

a both-names indication of terrorist links include "George Bush", "Tony Blair," and

interestingly, "Gordon Brown", Britain's chancellor of the exchequer. Names which

seem to be in the clear include "Oliver North" and "Hugo Chavez".

Either the terrorist conspiracy has gone deeper than anyone could have thought,

or the American feds have gone loco, or perhaps the S3 guys are over-egging

the pudding just a tad. Maybe all of the above.

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