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Moxie Marlinspike (pseudonym) is the cofounder of mobile app developer, Signal, and in an NPR interview, he explained that their premier app of the same name is frequented by leakers to encrypt information and get it from A to B whether by call or by text. To do this, it uses end-to-end encryption, which means, “You can ensure that when you send a message to someone or you call someone, that the thing that you write or say is only visible to yourself and the intended recipient,” according to Marlinspike.

As White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer recently began targeting his staff with random phone checks (among other security measures) to enforce the Trump Administration’s leak crackdown. Following a leak from a planning meeting with about twelve staffers, Spicer brought the entire group back together to lash out at them regarding the incessant leaks, some of which he knew originated with sources in that group.

The Trump Administration has all the same resources at its disposal that the Obama Administration had. The fact that they are struggling to plug these leaks, which are coming at an even more alarming frequency, coincides with the rise in popularity of applications like Signal and SecureDrop—applications that specifically make it more difficult to find sources and prosecute them.