If you’ve ever built a gaming PC, then you know how each unboxed
component has its own “new tech” scent. That’s similar to new car smell,
only geekier and less expensive. Although it depends upon your sense of
smell, it’s much more difficult to catch the scent of “tech” when you
open a new SD card, USB drive or other hard drive. Take away the “new”
factor and change it to previously-used memory filled with child porn
and then hidden away; that is what a new type of police dog is
supposedly detecting.
You may have heard of
memory sniffing
attacks, but it likely did not include a dog as part of the scenario.
While discussing new methods police are using to fight child porn in
Rhode Island, the Providence Journal
reported
that includes police dogs allegedly capable of sniffing out hidden
memory cards and storage drives, which will be used during the
investigation of suspected child pornographers.
The state police
task force’s hunt to track down “the worst of the worst” offenders now
includes a golden Labrador named Thoreau that “received 22 weeks of
training in how to detect devices in exchange for food
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2451084/microsoft-subnet/police-dog-sniffs-out-kiddie-porn-on-hidden-memory-cards-and-flash-drives.html
