US bails laws are stupid you can get a million bail based on carding as you have found out.
State or Federal is the main questions you need to ask.
The facts its a million bail i am guessing State which is not unusual in the US in fact its best if its stays State asthe Feds will do them at...
Agreed with The Jew you did not get past the Tamper and its dead no fixing it. Why you think there is "Tamper" ?
To stop people fucking with shit they don' know
To do Online POS the Tech has to come into the Store and either Mod the POS when no is there or swap out the POS. Depending on the Model of POS some can not just Modded as Chip TR2 data is not enough to cash out you need TR 2 from mag stripe. So it might be Pull Pin from Chip and than pull TR 2...
Like my man Rodney King of LA Freeway fame and of course lest we forget, Celeb Rehab with Dr Drew..Hur Hur, i digress!
Can't we all get along!
As he gets baton upside the head back in the day.