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