In reply to Ian Dunn.

I follow @wptavern, over 50 members of the WordPress community, many WordPress theme/plugin authors and the WordPress account. I will get at least 15 tweets within 15 minutes of the update being mentioned.

Automatic updates for me just seems lazy adminstrating. I keep up to date on all my WP installations and other non-wp things I run in my sites.

There is also the privacy issue many people have.

No matter what security you have, things can break. I view my login logs every day. One site I have someone try to use admin and random password attemps almost on a daily basis. It is a cat pics site, nothing else. no e-commerce or anything people can register.