The Romanian Police is going to invest no less than 1.7 million lei in software designed to allow the extraction of data from mobile phones and other IT devices. According to the tender initiated by the Romanian Police, it wants 38 software applications that will allow it to carry out computer searches and 38 portable forensic computer systems.
This software should be able to extract data from iPhone, Samsung, ASUS, Blackberry, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Nokia, Philips, Motorola, etc. terminals. Regardless of the protection measures that these terminals have, the software should be able to break them to extract SMS messages, contact book, call list, pictures, movies, list of applications, information on visited locations and many others.
The Romanian Police wants to buy a software that can hack no less than 8700 types of mobile phones, and among them will be many iPhone and iPad models. Except for the iPhone 7, almost all the others running iOS 10 can most likely be jailbroken by security companies, especially since there is also a public jailbreak for them.
Moreover, the software should be able to remove the security codes set in the phones, this being a big problem in the case of the iPhone. We know from last year that the FBI paid a lot of money to decode an iPhone, and the Romanian Police wants to use the same money to buy software to decode many other models of mobile phones.
The 1.7 million lei that the Romanian Police allocated for this purchase will probably not cover the amount needed to buy something of quality, but we will see more if someone offers to honor the auction.
