Photo Credit: Kathy Borchers/The Providence Journal
Posted on 07/11/2014 12:38:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Rhode Island has become the second state in the nation to have a police dog trained to sniff out hard drives, thumb drives and other technological gadgets. Why? Police are looking for storage devices that could contain child pornography. The dog, Thoreau, already appears to be up for the task as he assisted in his first search warrant search in June 2014 and found a USB thumb drive containing child pornography hidden four layers deep in a tin box inside a metal cabinet. Police will be able to use the storage drive finding dog on tough child porn cases where the criminals are trading images face to face instead of online.
Connecticut State Police say they began the program that trained Thoreau a few years ago in an effort to aid their increasingly busy Computer Crimes Investigative Unit. Thoreau reportedly attended 22 weeks of training in Connecticut to learn to detect computer devices. It appears that the highly trained pooch can sniff out the scent of metal and components commonly used in storage devices.
Move aside arson dogs, bomb dogs, narcotics dogs, cadaver dogs as there is a new dog in town and this one catches pedophiles!
Photo Credit: Kathy Borchers/The Providence Journal
Send them after Lois Lerner
Ever notice,,, every creepy new technique and technology that will be used against us, is always “for child porn”?
They've had plenty of training in ignoring the Constitution.
I smell merryjewanna. Your Constitutional rights just ended.
Which will result in evidence getting tossed and guilty perverts going free.
Stupid idea
The IRS is going to shoot this dog!
But first, they need to train the cops not to shoot the dog.
So what are you suggesting? That Lois Lerner & Pals were into kiddie porn?
LOL!
LOL!
Yeah, the dog is so sensitive, it can detect hidden data while it’s walking by on the sidewalk! [eyeroll]
what smell does a usb thumb drive give off? anyone??
Is the dog’s name Clever Hans?
That’s too cruel even for a crooked cop...
data transport by odor? can it achieve USDB3.0 datarates?
a few whiffs and fido has your stuff downloaded..
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