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Zerodium is offering a $1 million bounty for a browser-based jailbreak. I have a few comments about this. The two keywords to pick up on are "browser-based" and "untethered". The word "jailbreak" is a red-herring.
It's not about jailbreaks. Sure, the jailbreak market is huge. It's really popular in China, and there are reports of $1 million being spent on jailbreaks. But still, actually getting a return on such an investment is hard. Once you have such a jailbreak, others will start reverse engineering it, so it's an extremely high risk. You may get your money back, but there's a good chance you'll be reverse-engineered before you can.
The bigger money is in the intelligence market or 0days. A "browser-based" jailbreak is the same as a "browser-based" 0day. Intelligence organizations around the world, from China, to Europe, and most especially the NSA, have honed their tactics, techniques, and procedures around iPhone 0days. Terrorist leaders are like everyone else, blinging themselves out with status displays like iPhones. Also, iPhone is a lot more secure than Android, so it's actually a good decision (intelligence organizations have hacked Android even more).
Every time Apple comes out with a new version (like iOS9), they
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