[savedbygrace]

The equipment would not work without a connection to the DMV's mainframe computer, Malone said. "It would be very, very difficult to break the encryption," he said.
However, the officials said false information could be placed on blank licenses and covered with authentic laminates and holographic seals, making the fake licenses indistinguishable from the real thing.

Huh? The equipment wouln't work w/o a mainframe connection, but it could be used to create licenses that are indistinguishable from the real thing? Anybody make sense of this contradiction?

[BurbankKarl]

This is BS....years ago CA DMV workers were taking cash for making REAL licenses for illegals. They never knew how many were processed since so many workers were up to no good.