Iphone hackers are waiting for 1.1.3 firmware to unlock OOTB 1.1.2 phones

Initially, when I was going through forums I read in some places that hackers are waiting for the release of 1.1.3 firmware to release unlock software for 1.1.2 firmware. Most of the articles said that the hackers are waiting because apple would close the loophole in 1.1.3 if they released the hack early. By not releasing the hack early, they can have a single solution which can fix both 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 firmwares. This argument was convincing and I believed in it.

But recently I read an article which is more convincing. The wait is because of technical reason. They cannot unlock 1.1.2 unless there is a newer baseband firmware which they are expecting in 1.1.3. Let me go into little technical details. The old bootloader (3.9), with OOTB 1.1.1 phones or earlier, needs a secpack of current baseband firmware or a future one to overwrite the default baseband firmware. But the latest bootloader (4.6) needs a secpack of future version only to overwrite the default baseband firmware. So one cannot simply modify/hack the existing baseband firmware and overwrite the default baseband firmware.

This is the main reason why the hackers are waiting for the release of 1.1.3 to provide software unlock solution for the OOTB 1.1.2 phones. If there is no new baseband firmware in 1.1.3, we will be back to square one. Let us hope that there will be new baseband firmware in the new update.