Idaho prisoners hack iPads and transfer $225,000 worth of credits to themselves

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/26/idaho-prison-hacking-ipad-transfer-credit

by dsr12 • 8 years ago

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jwess• 8 years ago

It's a shame JPay charges just for sending electronic messages to inmates. I wonder why someone would choose to use JPay instead of sending a letter? I can't imagine inmates would significantly benefit from the reduced delivery time...

steve19• 8 years ago

I wonder what the charge rate is. On one hand is sounds like extortion and a breach of at least human decency if not human rights, but it's possible it's used to reduce congestion to a limited number of terminals and censors and so prevent individuals from monopolizing the termials. Although I would prefer they gave at least X free messages per week.

The extortion of prisoners makes me sick.

unsignedint• 8 years ago

Here's the rate list...

https://www.jpay.com/PAvail.aspx

JudasGoat• 8 years ago

I spent 2 years of my life getting price gouged while incarcerated by a split between a company called "Bob Barker Ent." and the local county. Prices were 2 to 4 times "street price". My take; Too bad the inmates got caught.

noja• 8 years ago

My bet is the "hacking" and "exploit" was ?add_credit=999

Idaho prisoners hack iPads and transfer $225,000 worth of credits to themselves

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