Underground entrepreneur

I'm sorry he was caught, but it's good to hear that Syracuse University freshman Michael Ju is among those with entrepreneurial spirit and a healthy contempt for the law. Ju was manufacturing and selling forged Maine drivers licenses that, according to police, "appeared to be very authentic."

I've mentioned before that I made money in college painstakingly altering drivers licenses, but I was put out of business by a competitor who had a set-up for forging licenses that rivaled that of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.

Since then, government agencies have adopted technological gimmicks intended to make licenses more difficult to alter or forge. As Mr. Ju and his still-anonymous competitors illustrate, the market is always ready to overcome official barriers.