Posted on 09/28/2016 12:15:14 PM PDT by sparklite2
Azzi added that teaching a dog how to sniff out kiddie porn on hard drives is no different than training them how to detect a rotting corpse.
“You isolate an odor,” Azzi said. “You’ve got to find the right dog for the job. Nothing more, nothing less.”
Ruger is Ohio’s first computer-sniffing dog and part of a small group of canines — fewer than two dozen — that do this type of work across the country, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Apparently the dogs are being trained to sniff-out electronic devices:
I do not see how that is possible. First, the encoding of text vs. pictures would have to be different—and I think it is all encoded in magnetic zeros and ones. Then, the encoding of regular pictures vs. porn pictures would also have to be different—and they are still all encoded in magnetic zeros and ones. I’m thinking that a statistical analysis would show that the proportion of zeros and ones in various types of saved files, whether pictures or text, would be roughly the same.
I wonder if someone fed the author of this story a line, perhaps to distract from the high tech methods actually used to search the hard drive. The more that criminals know about the high tech methods, the more they can do to circumvent them. But if they believe that a dog can smell them out—well, I can think of ways they would try to circumvent that, too.
Bet he can sniff out pictures of bones and rawhides too. Doggie porn!
They can find flash drives, burn phones and other electronic devices, but porn? No way. The porn is a coincidence. They just find the electronics.
This is how they get “probable cause” to search your car, by having a dog that will “alert” to anything “alert” when it sniffs your car.
Since the dog is literally alerting to anything, you can have it search for anything, including binary data!
Devices are what they are trained to find; including very tiny ones that pornographers might hide.
Skeptical? How naive are you? Radio waves and electricity do not have an odor based on the content of the transmission they are carrying. This is not BS. It is abject stupidity. It is electricity spilling on the floor. It is flat earth advocacy. It is ignorance beyond hope.
Too bad the article doesn’t have a comment section. This one is ripe for puns.
Why would anyone even print such obvious nonsense?
Apparently what the dogs can detect are “Electronic devices” in general. The ones the pervs are trying to hide from the cops.
> Why would anyone even print such obvious nonsense?
The Ministry of Propaganda pays well?
Yep, any electronics guy knows that smell. The dog sniffed out a hidden thumb drive which just happen to have porn on it. Bogus story by stupid reporter.
Sniff it out or felch it out?
Yeah, right. That search will never hold up in court.
“But judge, we had probable cause to do a forensic search of his computer because our dog smelled the stench of kiddie porn.”
Remember the story of how police interrogated a guy by putting a colander on his head, connected to a copy machine?
When he answered a question, they’d punch the machine, which was actually making a copy of ‘he’s lying,’ and the machine would spit out ‘he’s lying.’ The guy finally confessed.
Just a tiny bit of the article made my brain shut off to prevent permanent damage.
Like most of these dogs when the dog licks its butt the handler says that’s his trigger and you must consent to a search. Same thing as the bogus traffic stop searches
I thought it was interesting that the dogs could be trained to find even tiny microcards. But I guess their noses are even that good.
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