Morning Security Brief: Drug Sniffing Dogs, Google Slams Mobile Security Vendors, DHS Denies Hackers Hit Water Pump, and More
► Is a sniff by a drug dog a search covered by the Fourth Amendment? The Supreme Court will soon decide. Police in Florida were tipped off that someone was growing marijuana inside a house, but after surveillance of the house, nothing turned up. A detective took a drug-sniffing dog to the porch of the house and the dog alerted that it smelled marijuana. The defendant, Joelis Jardines, argued that the sniff on the porch was an illegal search.
