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Beginning October 1, if the coronavirus doesn’t interfere, the Department of Homeland Security will require anyone who wants to board a flight within the United States to produce “Real ID”–compliant identification like this driver’s license. The bearer is uniquely identified by the nondescript “DD,” or Document Discriminator, a code that denotes where and when the card was issued. In a narrow sense, the Real ID is the product of a

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