So we should go back to banging rocks together, eh?

This is an oft rehashed topic in many guises. We participate in a technical culture of 'Permit All'. That is forever going to be the root problem, until such a time as we switch to 'Deny All' as our default behavior. It won't happen, I believe. Microsoft and Apple are always talking about the new features, how fast and easy something is to use, and why it is so much better than all the previous versions.

The point is a 'Deny All' system is not really all that functional, in the way we identify 'functionality'...what, you mean I can't read my email, surf the net, and write code on the same system?!?

Let's add something meaningful to this old rhetoric or let it rest in peace.