[Pontiac]

However, should you be tired of Obama, just know that there’s no way to switch off Presidential alerts.”

Thank the Lord for hackers!

A week or two after this show up on the shelves there should be a hack available on the internet to disable the offending software.

The endlessly creative and rebellious human mind can not be subdued.

What one man can do another can undo.

[Springfield Reformer]

Here are some examples:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/disable-severe-weather-and-presidential-alerts-on-verizon-galaxy-s-iii/

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1829681

So basically you can kill the stock messaging utility and use a third party package that doesn’t operate under the legal requirements the carriers do, or you can dig in deeper, depending on your degree of adventurism, and just monkey with the text message system files directly.

While some may wish to go whole hog and root (android) or jailbreak (apple) their system, you should consult a lawyer before doing so, as that activity is, under most circumstances, now considered illegal. Superficially, this is to protect the carriers from contractees randomly wandering off the plantation, and it also has a connection to DRM copyright issues. However, given the new revelations about NSA snooping and such, there is little doubt the feral gov is also trying to save it’s back end in. Just sayin ...