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posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday August 26 2015, @09:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the mental-image-from-headline-far-more-salacious-than-actual-situation dept.

He's a bloodhound for the digital age. Much the way other dogs can pick up the scent of a fugitive or a cache of cocaine, Bear the labrador can smell the components of electronic media, even a micro-card as small as a fingernail that a suspect could easily hide.

From the article:

The 2-year-old rescue pooch nosed out a thumb drive that humans had failed to find during a search of Fogle's Indiana house in July, several weeks before he agreed to plead guilty to having X-rated images of minors and paying to have sex with teenage girls.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2015, @10:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2015, @10:31PM (#228310)

    > I would think the lesson would be to encrypt your data.

    Because people never screw that up.

    We've had a million stories about general data security. This story is about dogs, talking about dog-specific countermeasures is interesting. Same old baseline advice to encrypt is hardly novel. Layers man.

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