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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: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Thursday August 27 2015, @12:17AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday August 27 2015, @12:17AM (#228365) Journal

    Exactly, and secondly, the way privacy is eroded is to find a disgusting defendant with whom almost everyone cannot identify. The primary magic spell over rationality employed by authoritarians, is to find someone really horrid, and say: "do you support what he did? You must if you care about privacy."

    In this case, I doubt there is anything outside the pale -- surely the search occurred in the context of a warrant. But something to be aware of is how easily the police-state can win ever more power just by picking gross defendants, and using them as a test cases for the expansion of abusive power.

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