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The other day I asked Google "Are US drivers licenses forgery-proof?" and "Can US Real-ID drivers licenses be forged?"

The #1 or #2 hit is utterly irrelevant: nothing to do with US or Real-ID (zero mentions), it's about New South Wales, Australia (lots of mentions of "NSW"):

> ‘Tough to Forge’ Digital Driver’s Licenses Are—Yep—Easy to Forge. Researchers found a litany of security flaws that allow simple, quick, and cheap forgeries in Australia. https://www.wired.com/story/digital-drivers-license-forgery-...




That's still a relevance fail: "Real ID" driver's license [0] refers to the 2005 US improved standard in driver's license, which was intended to be harder to forge. Which is the entire point of the Google query. (We all know pre-Real-ID driver's licenses could be forged, that's not at issue.)

But that link is a 2002 article at least about the US, but not Real ID.

(any random hit for ""real ID" forgery" in the last 18(!) years would be better)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act


What were the other links on Kagi? As far as this query goes, neither Google nor Kagi seem to get it right. Google gets the country wrong and Kagi misses the “Real ID” part. The difference is, you’re paying for the second mistake.

I will also add that the particular link you showed is a 7300 word document from 2002, most of which has nothing to do with ID cards at all. It’s at a college graduate reading level and would take 26 minutes for someone to read according to wordcounter.net.




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