Reply #50: All of the above and none; the lists only contain names, no unique identifying information [View All]

[Euromutt]

If your name is Mohamed Ibrahim, you're on the list.
If your name is John Shaw, you're on the list.
If your name is Michelle Green, you're on the list.
If your name is David Nelson, you're on the list.
If your name is Cat Stevens, you're on the list.
If your name is "T. Kennedy," you're on the list.
There are tens of thousands of names, possibly over a million, on the list.

It doesn't matter which Mohamed Ibrahim, John Shaw, Michelle Green, etc. you are, because the list doesn't contain identifying information like date of birth, physical description, even sex/gender. If your name matches one on either list, you can get hassled.

Though in one instance, a guy's name was placed on the list after the TSA found gunpowder residue on his boots. The fact that he was a marine reservist returning from a tour in Iraq at the time, and that the boots in question were his uniform boots, didn't seem to factor into the TSA's decision to put him on the list. It made things problematic for him when he came back from Iraq the second time.