[dintech]

> A jail broken/rooted device may not have the same protections since jail breaking is typically circumventing that sort of threat protection.

If it was jail-breakable, that security was never there in the first place.

[anang]

Jail breaking is a deliberate and involved process, in some cases something that the manufacturer even allows for.

It’s not really the same as a random piece of JavaScript on a webpage jail breaking your phone. I think having a rootable device doesn’t inherently mean your device is insecure.

[ValentineC]

> It’s not really the same as a random piece of JavaScript on a webpage jail breaking your phone. I think having a rootable device doesn’t inherently mean your device is insecure.

Heh this was actually the case for a couple of Safari-based jailbreaks, all the way up to 9.3.4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe

[leviathan]

You are the one who jail-breaks the phone, but now third party apps you install can have much more unprotected access and you cannot be certain what they are doing behind your back.