Is there an option to disable NSA/PRISM tracking?

Network 23 wrote:

Where is the article that actually says that?

Google image/search "PRISM slides"

There's one advantage in having NSA track you.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

Network 23 wrote:

people are extrapolating irrationally from the few facts which actually describe something different.

A phenomenon also known as: human ignorance and the cause of all the world's problems since the dawn of our existence.

Google image/search "PRISM slides"

Where Google makes a record of your searches and Web visits and send them on to the NSA.

It gets better: if you are with Verizon everything you do on the internet is passed immediately to the NSA by the British GCHQ.

Some of the world's leading telecoms firms, including BT and Vodafone, are secretly collaborating with Britain's spy agency GCHQ, and are passing on details of their customers' phone calls, email messages and Facebook entries, documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden show.

BT, Vodafone Cable, and the American firm Verizon Business – together with four other smaller providers – have given GCHQ secret unlimited access to their network of undersea cables. The cables carry much of the world's phone calls and internet traffic.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/02/telecoms-bt-vodafone-cables-gchq

It gets better: if you are with Verizon everything you do on the internet is passed immediately to the NSA

I will be moving in a few months and be switching to Verizon. They have the fastest and most reliable Internet here. None of what you wrote above surprises me.

The era of privacy is totally over. 13 year old book.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565845692

Recently in the news, NSA and other agencies are pressuring

all ISPs to install spyware the NSA on all their servers and although

have not made direct threats for non-compliance, as yet!!!!!!!

The "Patriot Act" has openned the flood gates to elimate all privacy

and rights of citizens.

Big Brother wants to know all!!!!!!

We have been discussing this in our company and we find the NSA affaire very very worrying.

etresoft wrote:

Apple Mail supports encrypted S/MIME without the need for PGP. That is similar to people using Tor and proxies though. The only people willing to go through the hassle to get S/MIME to work probably do have something to hide. While the government can't use any of these nefarious means to convict someone in a court of law, they can use them to identify those people who need convicting.

You are right, and so this is soooo annoying: Everybody has something to hide! (This really pi%#$#es me off.)

From sexual fantasies to company IP. Let us concentrate on the latter, because that is my biggest point of concern:

Company IP is the assets of the people owning the enterprise. One of the task of (almost each) secret service is to let national enterprises profit from knowledge. This knowledge is 'scanned' -or better- 'stolen' from information inside other enterprises around the world. Since we (and our company) are located in Europe, we are point of interest to the NSA. No doubt about that. So, Apple, how do you think about that? From the NSA slides we all know they entered the 'programm' end of 2012. I am certain that Steve Jobs turns around in his grave a 1000 times because of this... Therefore I expect a clear statement about what Apple is going to do about this. How about that? THIS is the question we should ask.