Canada Immigration
Canada News: "The men were not frisked, or even asked to remove their shoes as is now routine at airport security checkpoints in the post 9-11 world.



Immigration also ran all of their names through a database called FOSS (Field Operational Support System), one of about six databases used at the border to keep out undesirables.



MAIN DATABASE



That's where the typos occurred.



FOSS is the main database which will show a sweeping variety of immigration-related information once a traveller's name, date of birth and sex are entered, according to Danny Yen, spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency."