OK so to summarize this thread if I'm reading it correctly, TFA makes claims that are easily proven to be related to an old technical snafu in the auto-updater

Now consider

> The [other thing] has a universal back door through which that $G_GAFAM_COMPANY2 can forcibly change the software. This is called "auto-update". It puts the user helplessly at $G_GAFAM_COMPANY2 mercy.

- richard stallman http://stallman.org/amazon.html

This right here is the root of the problem

we are all at NSA/Alphabet Google+Microsoft's mercy, and auto-updater although arguably useful for normie-facing software like the world's standard web browser has downsides.