I misread that there, so disregard the first reply. Point still stands: no one forces you to upgrade your BIOS (unless there's problems) and even then, patchin

I misread that there, so disregard the first reply. Point still stands: no one forces you to upgrade your BIOS (unless there's problems) and even then, patching the BIOS upgrade itself is still an option. So it remains under user control.