Pretty good ideas, but transition fom current-state to the author's ideas will bring a lot of pain. #1 - Default Permit - if aliens arrived and hacked all of o

Pretty good ideas, but transition fom current-state to the author's ideas will bring a lot of pain. #1 - Default Permit - if aliens arrived and hacked all of our systems to enforce "default deny" - we'd all die within a week. Nothing would work. Game over, civilization. Ask the author if he'd sanction a "default deny" switchover on the systems that control his mom's respirator. If that sounds like an indictment of status quo, you're right. But how do you handle a skid? Not by turning the wheel full lock in the opposite direction, certainly. Hard to argue with #2 or #3 but of course alternatives depend greatly on the availability of talent, of which there is precious little. Just getting things to work requires most of our bandwidth. Now, if I ruled the IT world, my devs would be ex-chemical engineers (a profession that seems adept at understanding dynamic processes) who have world-class comprehension of every layer of my tech stack AND who were provided with unlimited budgets and time, with proper prototyping and other great engineering practices. #4 - Hacking is cool if in service of a noble goal, just as murder is when fighting an aggressive enemy or burglary is when it uncovers something nefarious. But otherwise, it's just plain B&E. #5 - Educating users. I think we have another transition issue on our hands - most of today's users are clueless, sure. But tomorrow's will only be on guard against what works today. Maybe the author thinks everyone over a certain age is obsolete, or that only security people know what's best for users. In either case, let's hope the author doesn't attempt to fit their template onto other aspects of society. #6 - Assuming the author is right, if everyone adopts a wait-and-see approach, who will act as the early adopters whose brains one can pick? Certainly IT has a lot of gratuitous product / idea churn, and cluelessness seems to prevail in a lot of decisions, but I doubt fastidious conservatism will fare any better.