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A new motherboard which is still outgassing, definitely. But the kind of thing they want to find - a well-aged microSD card - which is all chip packaging and do

A new motherboard which is still outgassing, definitely. But the kind of thing they want to find - a well-aged microSD card - which is all chip packaging and doesn't even have a circuit board? My friends who do hardware RE and occasional chip forensics generally have to dissolve that stuff (with happy fun acids that I don't particularly want to handle, like fuming nitric acid - I don't know which particular one, but I know it tends to be hypergolic - and hydrofloric acid, which my dad was familiar enough with and I never want to be friends with) before gas chromatography to identify it, because they wouldn't get anything if it had a magic smell and they just put it in there! Their reaction at this story when it was over on Slashdot was to laugh and wonder if they could replace the acids with dog slobber.

trhway 12y ago
>But the kind of thing they want to find - a well-aged microSD card - which is all chip packaging and doesn't even have a circuit board? i bet that the specific plastics types used for the cards are easily identifiable by dogs. >Their reaction at this story when it was over on Slashdot was to laugh and wonder if they could replace the acids with dog slobber. they could try : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/277012.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/277012.php "A new study from Italian researchers, presented at the 109th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association in Orlando, FL, found that specially trained dogs were able to detect prostate cancer from urine samples with 98% accuracy. "