Police forces in the United States train special K9 dogs to locate hidden hard drives, and to judge from the success of the mission, this program may be expanding in the upcoming future.
Last August, a Labrador named Bear helped Indiana police police to discover a hidden hard drive in home of Jared Fogle, where researchers found within it video and photos which were used as evidence and landed Fogle in prison on pedophilia charges.
Following this success, police officers in Texas are training a second dog, named Brody, to be able to sniff out the special glues used only for thetreatment hard drives. Brody can stomp hard drives, USB sticks, thumb drives, and tiny SD cards that may be hidden in a suspect's home.
"We have found that there were safe storage devices under the floor of the house," said Ryan Gable, a policeman at Konstabl for KHOU.
Of course, dogs can also be used in other illegal acts. If the police have to locate hard drives that store various data about the suspect's activity, such as in cases of financial fraud, organized crime, and so on.
