It did cross my mind as well. Considering the whole Russia drama right now, I wonder if the NSA just asked Microsoft to delay its patches for this month so it d

It did cross my mind as well. Considering the whole Russia drama right now, I wonder if the NSA just asked Microsoft to delay its patches for this month so it doesn't interrupt the agency's on-going operations against Russia. I doesn't help that Microsoft has been moving in a direction where it provides less and less information about what its updates do these days, while sneaking through dozens of new root certificates at once every now and then. http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14381174/microsoft-thailand-government-surveillance-thai-censorship-encryption http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14381174/microsoft-thailan... http://www.networkworld.com/article/2348143/security/microsoft--silently--restores-root-certificates-that-users-distrust-and-remove.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2348143/security/microso... https://hexatomium.github.io/2016/10/11/unannounced-root-cert-update/ https://hexatomium.github.io/2016/10/11/unannounced-root-cer... https://hexatomium.github.io/2015/06/26/ms-very-quietly-adds-18-new-trusted-root-certs/ https://hexatomium.github.io/2015/06/26/ms-very-quietly-adds...