Provided by The Hill How to stop NSA from snooping on your phone <\/p>\n
The first thing to know about securing your phone is that you cant secure your phone. <\/p>\n
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). <\/p>\n
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). <\/p>\n
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? <\/p>\n
The market has responded. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
FBI Director James Comey calls it the going dark problem. <\/p>\n
Its set up a standoff. Law enforcement on one side, privacy advocates and major tech companies on the other. <\/p>\n
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