The rising cost of cracking the iPhone

If you’ve got a way to crack iOS 10, you can get $1.5 million for it. That’s the bounty announced by exploit broker Zerodium yesterday, available to anyone who can pull off a remote jailbreak attack. When the company made the same offer for iOS 9 last year, the price was only $1 million.
On some level, it’s a simple PR play. By offering a big, splashy reward they ensure that the next time a researcher is looking to cash in an exploit or a spyware company is looking to buy one,