Exploit Discovered with iPhone OS 3.1.3, Unlock to Come Soon

iPhone hacking expert, Sherif Hasim has announced that he has discovered an exploit in the baseband (05.12.01) that is bundled with iPhone OS 3.1.3 that should help in unlocking it. Sherif was banned from the Apple store recently, and as you can see that did not stop him from hacking the iPhone.

Sherif Hashim tweeted that he has successfully crashed iPhone OS 3.1.3 baseband and MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has confirmed that is working.

iPhone Dev Team have clarified that this is the first step in the process of unlocking the baseband and it is too early to provide an ETA on when the tool to unlock iPhone OS 3.1.3 will be released.

"We’ve started to look at his crash but it’s a long road between any given crash and a fully working unlock, and we couldn’t put an ETA on it even if we wanted to. It’s not even guaranteed that an working unlock will come from this particular crash — it’s just too early to tell.”

This is good news for all the users who rely on the Unlock and want to upgrade to OS 3.1.3 or have upgraded accidentally and are now stuck.