Provided by The Hill How to stop NSA from snooping on your phone

The first thing to know about securing your phone is that you cant secure your phone.

If [National Security Agency officials want] to get into your phone, theyre going to get into your phone, said Chris Soghoian, the principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Spying on the content of cell phone communications is trivially easy, added Eva Galperin, global policy analyst with the digital rights advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

That said, the last year has seen a booming desire to make spying more difficult. Since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the government was collecting data on Americans phone records and Internet activity, average people now ask: How can I keep the NSA from snooping on my phone?

The market has responded.

Major tech companies like Apple and Google promoted their new phones by highlighting the encryption methods they claim will lock out the government. A slew of apps to encrypt text messages and voice calls have popped up. Previously obscure Internet encryption methods are being adopted by non-technophiles.

And though hacking teams at the NSA and FBI will almost always win-out when sufficiently motivated, the rise of widespread encryption has worried law enforcement officials.

FBI Director James Comey calls it the going dark problem.

Its set up a standoff. Law enforcement on one side, privacy advocates and major tech companies on the other.

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How to stop NSA from snooping on you