There has been a good amount of 4.2.1 jailbreak news lately but the unlock has been missing in action for quite some time. Today we get a little ray of light about Ultrasn0w on Twitter from the Egyptian baseband hacker Sherif Hashim, who worked on the 3.1.3 unlock. He is trying to keep it on the down low as English only speakers would have missed it, but he indicated that the unlock should be ready in about one month.

Sherif Hashim found an exploitable baseband crash that could bring an unlock for basebands 05.14.02 and 02.10.04 back in November. Very little has been heard since then and nothing definitive as to the timing on a new ultrasn0w for iOS 4.1 and 4.2. One impatient unlocked sent Hashim a tweet in Arabic, saying he was going away for Military Service on January 16 and asking if the unlock would be ready by then. Hashim’s response, in English: “Sure.”

The main reason we don’t get much news from the hackers is because they need to spend their time hacking, not sending out updates. As Hashim promised yesterday, “whenever it is ready for beta testing and use, u’ll all be notified thru @MuscleNerd’s Twitter or mine.” Stay tuned for more news and updates on the topic by following us on Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feed.

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