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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
My guess is that it was his brother's dog...
Thank you for enlightening me, a lowly ignorant peasant.
Checked calendar. It isn’t April 1. Somebody prank them?
Wonder if the dog will track a scammer?
It’s a very poorly written article, probably written poorly on purpose. This is the NY Post...
This is bs. Data recorded to a hard drive is not going to have a distinct scent based on the nature of the data. Do they need cover for seizing the hard drive of a suspected child pornographer? That’s the only thing that makes sense.
It’s about using dogs when searching for thumb drives. First they get a suspected perp and then during a physical search they use dogs to find for hidden thumb drives.
Sounds silly to me.My guess is that kiddie porn on a hard drive or USB drive smells the same as would family photos or a spreadsheet tracking a stock portfolio.
Right. But you don’t hide a hard drive with family photos under your mattress. These cops are finding illegal smut consumers from credit card numbers or another piece of evidence. Then following up with physical search. That’s where the dogs come in.
He sniffs out hidden thumb drives
Seizing evidence under a contrived and false pretense is wrong, regardless of how heinous the crime might be. If you accept nonsensical porn-sniffing dogs now, what will it be down the road that might be directed at you, being the deplorable that you are?
"I smell the Hildabeast!"
A guy is driving down the road in West Virginia and he sees a hand-lettered sign: “Talking Dog for sale – 10 dollars.” He’s curious, so he stops and begins walking up the driveway. He gets close to the house and sees a dog. Joking to himself, he calls out, “Are you the talking dog?”
The dog looks up and says, “That’s me.”
The guy is floored. He can’t believe it. He says, “When did you learn to talk?”
The dog says, “I was pretty much born talking. It freaked people out, so I got abandoned at a young age. I had to live by my wits for a long time. Eventually I made it to Washington DC and bumped into a fellow who worked for the CIA. We teamed up and went all over the world. Turns out a lot of foreign agents will say things to a dog after the official interrogator has left the room. They talked to me, I talked to my partner and we broke open a lot of cases. But eventually I got tired of it and spent a few years traveling the world on my pension. Now I’m too old for traveling, so I just hang out here.”
The guy is amazed. He goes up to the house and knocks on the door. A man opens up and the guy blurts out: “I want to buy that dog! I only have one question – why are you selling him for just $10?”
The man who opened the door says, “Because he’s a damned liar, that’s why. He told you about the CIA, right? And travelling the world? He ain’t done any of that. He’s spent his whole life right here on this farm.”
Oh boy...
That's possible, but there is no guarantee that there is porn on the hard drive.
Not far off is something we used to do to pass the time in a photofinishing lab. We ran a ‘select’ program on a computerized photo printer. We’d put on a reel of spliced film and tell the scanner to look for a lot of skin color, which fell within selectable bands. Then we told the printer to print only the frames meeting the criteria.
Worked like a charm.
The idea is that they have reason to search in the first place, and use the dogs to find drives and micro cards. No different from sniffing for drugs.
Unfortunately, the dog had a false reaction to a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” MP3...
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