The Connecticut State Police have taken the lead in training police dogs skilled in the art of detecting hidden data. As more and more crimes involve electronic evidence, criminal enforcement agencies throughout the country are recognizing the need to find that evidence quickly. Data detecting dogs help do this by sniffing out chemicals associated with
Data Detecting Dogs: The FBI’s Newest Tool in Fighting Cyber-Crime
By Kelly Sweeney on
The FBI’s latest weapon in locating electronic evidence is not a computer program, it’s a dog. The FBI is using data-sniffing dogs in raids to cut down on the time it takes agents to locate small hidden data storage devices.
The FBI has used one such specially-trained dog, Bear, a number of raids to look…