A prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and their attorneys
▻https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/10/prison-visitation-homewav-leak/?guccounter=1
Thousands of calls were spilling from an unprotected server. Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and families to use prohibitively expensive video visitation services that often don’t work. But now the security and privacy of these systems are under scrutiny after one St Louis-based prison video visitation provider had a security lapse that exposed thousands of phone calls between (...)
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