• owl@infosec.pub
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    24 hours ago

    What do you think of my business idea of dogtoys that smell like illegal stuff, so you can train your dog to sniff out things. You have a ball and it smells like cocaine (there is no cocain in there), but you can hide it and train your dog now to sniff out cocaine, just for the fun of it. And there is one, that smells like explosives, one for marijuana, one for meth and so on.

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      18 hours 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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        14 minutes 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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      19 hours 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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      19 hours 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.