content: This is why the situation is so dire.  If you update does that make you safer, or more vulnerable?  In the case of Commodo, apparently it made you less safe to update.  If you're really so thoroughly paranoid that you think every software company is in cahoots with the NSA/CIA then the only solution is to go off the grid.  Not many people are willing to do that - there is a movement by the oligarchy to eliminate actual money and make all currency virtual, thus going off the grid will be almost impossible unless you're entirely self-sustaining.