Maker of Yanked Driver's License App Fires Back at Apple

The maker of a fake driver's license app that was yanked from Apple's App Store this week has fired back, saying the free app was "specifically and deliberately designed ... to prevent the creation of counterfeit identification."

"By design, it would take more effort and expertise to modify the product of the DriversEd.com Driver License app than to construct a counterfeit from scratch," But DriversEd.com founder and chief operating officer Gary Tsifrin said. Rather than high-quality license replicas, he added, the app produces images at just 72 dpi, not suitable for printing. DriversEd.com said it used design elements in the app that "deliberately do not correspond to government-issued IDs." The licenses created "incorporate obvious layout differences, font and color discrepancies, and the words 'MOCK by DriversEd.com' in proximity to the word 'license,' while containing "none of the security features of a modern government-issued ID," the company said.