http://www.guidingtech.com/23409/enable-android-permissions-...
It is really a shame that Android doesn't provide this feature enabled by default anymore (as they did for at one point). It could easily be provided with a warning that this might break your apps and use with caution.
Security often has a UX trade-off, that doesn't mean it can't be handled well by good design.
As someone who is working on a (secure) Android ROM, I don't recommend trying to build the kernel from source unless you're serious about doing it, the Android repo build system is a mess and will take you hours to get working right.
