"Dorset Police and Devon & Cornwall Police are the first forces in the UK to train digital storage detection police dogs... ...fighting the threat of terrorism, paedophiles and fraudsters as they are trained to search for devices such as phones, USB sticks and computers... 'The dogs have been used to sniff out data devices such as mobile devices, USB sticks, SD cards, hard drives and computers.'... http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/15...ers_to_catch_paedophiles_and_cyber_criminals/ Woof !
We have those dogs around here. Your best counter move is to use encryption software that offers a decoy volume (complete device based) and that has a hidden volume feature that cannot be proven to exist. The dogs can find the USB stick (example only) but then the decoy can be shown to authorities if needed. Of course your best bet is to simply abide by the law. LOL!
I already have a bone shaped decoy USB drive, my plan for global domination is hidden on an encrypted micro SD card sealed inside a piece of bubblisious bubble gum. I'm way ahead of them on this.
"This pup is a cyber criminal’s worst nightmare... When Haley detects the chemical compounds of circuit boards, CDs, DVDs and even old-school floppy discs, she sits down to alert human crime fighters of her find... Harley, a 2-year-old, female yellow Labrador retriever, will be deployed by the Westchester County Police Department and the FBI. Interest in the use of cyber dogs exploded in 2015 when authorities in Indiana deployed a Labrador named Bear during a search of then-Subway sandwich pitchman Jared Fogle’s home... Bear found a hidden thumb drive that contained pornographic images of minors. Fogle was later sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison... 'If a device is hidden in a drawer, under a table, in a wall, the dog picks up on it,'..." http://nypost.com/2017/09/17/this-pup-is-a-cyber-criminals-worst-nightmare/
The joke could actually be on @RockLobster "Pound puppy turned police 'porn dog'... ...'He actually found a USB that was in this jar that was closed, and the jar was in a box, and the box had stuff in it. The jar itself had stuff in it.'..." http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/05/us/police-dog-sniffs-out-flash-drives-in-porn-cases/index.html
Aha yes, but while the police dog is sniffing around, is rocklobster panicking every time it gets near a sealed jar in a box or... is he casually chewing his piece of bubblegum
Police departments are training dogs to sniff out thumb drives June 11, 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/11/17449002/police-k9-training-thumb-drives
