Comment on Now give me a treat

owl@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The real idea is to treasure those scents and spray them on all kinds of random shit.

  If the damn dog reacts to a bunch of items that aren’t weed, then you have grounds to challenge any searches conducted based on the dog’s reaction.

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This actually isn’t far removed from the reality we already have, it’s found many of the dogs are specifically trained not to accurately detect things, but to give the reaction that allows a cop to move forward in order to create probable cause.

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A well trained dog in controlled lab conditions is about 80% accurate iirc a dog in practice is far less than 50% accurate.

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  • owl@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean at the airport the dog identifies you suitcase and the officers then search the suitcase. Not sure how you could trick the dogs then.
    I suppose you could do it at your home, but that’s not useful either for the same reasons.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thousands of people all treating their perfectly-innocent suitcases with the stuff will generate a false-positive rate high enough that it’ll make the dogs’ signals unusable as probable cause.

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      • owl@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That could work, but why would anyone do that?

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • owl@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is it an urban legend, that people have hidden stashes in public?

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    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’ll never find hidden stashes of weed or cocaine. However the stashes of lead will find you if you follow your dog towards stashes of weed or cocaine.

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      • owl@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What are stashes of lead? Have read that here before.

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    • puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      i had hidden stashes in public when I was on probation as a youth lol

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      • owl@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Was it because hiding it at home was more risky with parents?
        Maybe it’s also an all eggs in one basket kinda thing. What if one stash is found or damaged, better to have backup.
        Or one could use it for dealing. I would imagine selling stuff to addicts, is kinda dangerous. What if they have no more money, but they know you have stuff in your pocket. Kinda scary. So what if you hide it, they give you the money and you give them a description where it is hidden. Sounds safer. Yes easier to scam, but a lot is about trust.
        I could imagine if someone is addicted, hiding a stash somewhere outside could keep one from eating through their entire stash when they get greedy.
        I’m kinda interested in how such things work.
        Can you explain how a public stash worked. Is it just a zip bag lightly buried? Or stuffed in some walls crack?

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• IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People do train and compete with their dogs in scent work but they use essential oils. So there may be a market for scented toys but probably not for illegal stuff.

  Also I’m not sure accidentally busting a drug trafficker is the key to a long healthy life lol.

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  • owl@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That makes more sense I suppose. Even if something just looks or smells illegal, it can still cause trouble.

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• meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could make toys that smell like low blood sugar, or a seizure? Useful and still a good business model.

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  • owl@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I suppose that would better be left to pros not hobbyists.

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