jailbroken

Every iOS version was jailbroken which means that crackers can find vulnerabilities to elevate privileges.

As do most Cell providers, plus you can install apps on jailbroken cell phones that will do that.

The cops will also not have a problem finding an iPhone developer, because distributors of non-jailbroken apps cannot be anonymous.

Cydia's substrate catches this on jailbroken devices, causing Springboard to enter Safe Mode (which is unaffected by this bug), while non-jailbroken devices - unable to handle Springboard crashing - resort to rebooting.

The App Store creates a bit of an issue, but it's possible to update app libraries if your phone is jailbroken.

With a jailbroken phone, you can just grab an app off the phone's file system.

Given that there are many jailbroken iPhones, and that it's trivial to access app files on a jailbroken iPhone, it would be easy for Google to run their own Malware scanners on AppStore submissions.

Aren't all iPhones that can be jailbroken subject to root code execution flaws?

For a while I was trying to get jailbroken iPhones to work as distributed nodes for Compressor.

The iPhone has had it for a while if you are jailbroken.

Without being jailbroken it is nearly impossible to properly utilize alternative browsers.

Trying to compare jailbroken iOS devices to the pre-iOS days is nonsensical.

It's important not to ignore the context of this "discovery": to become a trojan on non-jailbroken iPhones, an app must get into and remain in the Apple Store.

"...targeting users who jailbreak is also targeting the only people that pirate since you have to have a jailbroken phone to pirate." Bingo.

Your argument re: jailbroken devices would be more relevant if iOS followed the Android model of "here's an app store, but you can check this box here if you're fine with the risks of installing things from outside of our app store".

It doesn't sound like it's a kernel panic, though; based on the description, it sounds like the issue is with the UI ("Springboard"), which explains why jailbroken devices (which usually have Cydia's "substrate" installed to catch Springboard crashes) are kicked to "safe mode" instead of outright crashing.