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 her police force police of Indiana to discover a hidden hard drive in the home of Jared Fogle, where the researchers found in it video and photographs used as evidence and led Fogle to prison in the category of pedophilia.
Following this success, police officers in Teks train a second dog, called Brody, to be able to stun the special adhesives used only for the production hard drives. Brody can sniff hard drives, USB sticks, thumb drives, and tiny SD cards, which may be hidden in home a suspect.
“We have established that there were storage devices in safe points under the floor of the house," said Constable Ryan Gable 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.
