The implicit assumption here is that the terrorist, or the kiddie porn lover, will try to hide the thumb drive or the SD card someplace unexpected. So when the dogs sniffs it out where it’s not supposed to be, then obviously the perp is up to No Good. If the target has instead hidden the data on an encrypted drive, or misnamed the folder, or done anything at all to obscure the information while leaving the media in plain sight, then this dog has got to go back to strong encryption school.
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Exactly what I was thinking! Except I was hoping the age of the hacker dog is included on the power point presentation for this thing.
Now that I think about it, the name URL is not very creatively appropriate either.
Given that this is Utah, are we sure that they’re just searching for porn that would be considered illegal in most of the rest of the country?
Dunno, but given that this is Utah, the dog can probably also sniff out caffeine and gay people - both of which, like computer memory devices, have perfectly legal uses but can also be used to commit crimes, so,like, it is totally justified to have a dog that can sniff them out, just in case… 
/s
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Well, I realize I’m a data set of one, and I’m pansexual, not gay, but I do love coffee … guess I won’t be going to Utah anytime soon. Or if I do, I’ll be damned easy to find.
Completely off topic (the topic, I just can’t, sorry… To much).
But your picture remind me of a previous job. A lottery company, not named. There patch cases, looked like this, but intertwined. The people who did that, left.
If we where able to fix it, label it, document it. While down time was a no nono, whoa. Hard job, you know?
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Pansexual is probably worse on the Bigot-O-Meter - they really hate race mixing more than brown people, so maybe they hate sex mixing? Dunno, but whatever you do, don’t go there with a flash drive in your pocket… 
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Especially since I’m polyamorous too. They seem particularly sensitive about that, for some reason. (Add to it, one of my partners actually tried Mormonism for a few months when they were exploring their spirituality, but quickly realized it was not for them, eventually becoming a Pagan.)
Final straw? I’m a techie, so I usually have several USB drives in my backpack. I’m pretty sure the mulitboot Linux drive would get me put on some sort of perverts list in Utah. (Considering I do have Linux listed as a fetish on my fetlife account and all.)
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It can cut both ways. If I see a guy in a blue uniform, in a black and white car and ask him: “Is this your car? Do you have a license for that gun? What’s your name??” and they hesitate to answer (guess what, they almost always do!) then they are likewise subject to my own vile affections. I saw some stranger with a gun, I asked them about it, they gave me attitude, so I had to search them before maybe letting them roam around my neighborhood. I had a discussion about this with a Lieutenant at the local PD a couple of years back, and pointed out that their advice that cops answer no questions was practically a death sentence. If you are sending strangers to skulk around my neighborhood with guns, literally looking for trouble with people, and tell them to not respond to questioning - what would usually happen to people who do that?
Hey, if they can demonstrate some evidence that they are engaged in legitimate law enforcement activity, I will let them go about their business. But I am not a pushover, and have a threshold of evidence which is required first. They hate that! But guess where I learned these tactics?
Part of the key of it though is to not do this if they pull you over, or start asking you questions. But if you approach them first, this lays down some of the ground rules for interaction, sets expectations with them what yoiu are/aren’t willing to let them get away with.
Hidden thumb drives for the forensics teams to go over once the person is already being arrested.
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Well, his job is to locate resources, and he is in uniform…
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Clouds have no smell.
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We get it, you vape.
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