The entire purpose of this sub-forum is to help people with Jailbreaking and to discuss the intricacies of it. So isn't this forum in essence helping the entire AT&T/iPhone society by increasing the security and helping those who may be as WHM classifies them 'weak systems'? Essentially, we are the good guys of the jailbreakers, those with the knowledge and/or desire to learn more about the phones so that we are not susceptible to future exploits, and that we can assist others in becoming safe from them as well.
For the record, I got my first iPhone one week ago today, and I have been jailbroken for 2 days. I guess reading makes me some kind of expert?
WHM, you say that there are unknown vulnerabilities out there for Jailbroken iPhones, but if they are so completely unknown, is it not true that there are also likely vulnerabilities for normal iPhones? As IGoSlo put it, it's a personal responsibility thing. If you jailbrak your phone, it allows you to do things that could lead you open to an attack. And if your phone is attacked it could lead to other people (who also didn't take the proper steps) being attacked. Basically, the only people who are being attacked are those who did not take responsibilty for their actions (learning about jailbreaking before doing it)
You need to step back a little and look and your position to understand why perhaps you are at odds with so many of us here. You are paid to deal with security exploits, and deal with systems that are not secure and have been attacked. Therefore, all you see all day long is harmful people taking advantage of weak systems. This causes you to have a skewed perspective of how pervasive the exploits are. I know someone who works with Western Digital (and previously with Seagate) repairing damaged and failed hard drives. As a result, she doesn't trust most drives because of the sheer number of failed drives she sees at work. However, in reality the failure rate of most modern drives is actually quite low.
If you have anything to add as to how we can make our jailbroken iPhones more secure and less vulnerable to attacks, I'm all ears. If not, you can go back to your job which pays so well instead of spending your time here for free.