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Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog (cnn.com)
HughPickens.com writes: CNN reports that URL, the porn-sniffing dog, is the newest crime-fighting tool at the Weber County Sheriff's office with a nose that could help put away some of the country's most predatory and dangerous criminals. URL (pronounced Earl) sniffs out electronic storage media. Still just a pup, the 18-month-old K-9 is one of fewer than two dozen such dogs in the United States that hunt the unique chemical compounds emitted from flash drives, memory cards, cell phones, iPads and other similar devices. While dogs like URL can't tell detectives if a device has electronic evidence on it, they are able to find devices that humans might otherwise miss. Detective Cameron Hartman points to the high-profile case of former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle, who was convicted on child pornography and other charges last year. A K-9 named Bear, who was trained by the same man who trained URL, led investigators to hidden thumb drives inside Fogle's home. The U.S. Attorney's office for Southern Indiana confirmed those devices contained evidence against Fogle. URL has found evidence relating to pornography during the execution of search warrants for the task force in several investigations of child sex crimes and child trafficking. "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."
Misleading post is misleading! It's a huge jump from a USB drive to a porn-ladden USB drive.... But typical Slashdot bait.
as parallel construction.
"1) Having a flash card is not a crime
2) Having a flash card concealed is not a crime"
You wish. Though this was once true of cash, any bundle of money can now be presumed to be crime-related if the cops deem it profitable to make this declaration. Say goodbye to your Apple gear now under the same legal pretext.
You mean the "pigs" that protect your chubby suburban white ass from getting killed?
The criminal always has the initiative. The "pigs" don't protect or prevent ANYTHING. They show up after the fact to clean up the mess, and SOMETIMES get up off their asses to actually try to catch a perpetrator - you know, someone who has already DONE the crime. You have this wild notion that police somehow are the only barrier between the citizen and crime. No, the police are the CONSEQUENCES of crime for the criminal. That is, when they get the right guy. But anyone guilty enough will do, at the end of the day. The only barrier the police are really for is between you and those who rule you.
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Who do you think is going to protect you in your little suburban house?
No one. Protection is a myth.
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The police ARE the consequences and are the ONLY thing giving criminals second thoughts about breaking into your suburban house and knocking you over the head.
Which is exactly what I said. But then again considering the fact we still have crime, it doesn't seem to be working too well now does it?
You suburban white kids
You are quite obviously a racist fucker. You have no idea who I am or what I look like, let alone what my history is.
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You sound lucky enough to have never dealt with American Police.
Getting your shit back after seizure, innocent or not, is difficult at best and pointless at worst.
Yeah. Because 100% of porn is illegal child pornography.
Let's be real here:
Having a storage device doesn't mean that the state needs to know what's stored on it.
Having a storage device doesn't mean that the content is pornographic and/or illegal.
Having a storage device doesn't mean that you're a criminal.
And yet you get treated as such.
I don't think you can get stability and prosperity from a police state under any circumstances. You get told that whatever you have is stability and prosperity, provided by the suppression of enemies internal and external.
The saying "Mussolini made the trains run on time" should be retired and replaced with "Mussolini made it dangerous to notice when the trains were late."
Keep voting for an all-powerful government - and reap what you sow.
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
Some. But jail is also full of people who never thought they would get caught. Ergo, the "police" had zero influence on their choosing to commit a crime. Most people don't commit crimes because they were brought up properly, not because they're "afraid of the police". The police only have an effect on those borderline people who don't give a shit about anyone else but still care enough about themselves to not want to end up in jail. The sociopath doesn't give a shit, period. And decent human beings don't need police. in fact, lived many, many years without police. Police is a relatively NEW invention.
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Another reason the Muslim religion is full of fucking wack jobs.
Anybody who believes this shit or follows this shit is inherently a sucker.