Quote - Does anybody think this automatic updating is a good idea? I don't like the idea of acess to my computer. It may cause problems with my firewalls, etc.

It's not automatic updating of the kind your describing.

The updaters only run when you run an installer (for a morph pack or service release) or if you run them yourself (won't change anything unless you've installed something with new or changed files).
There are no network connections involved, no checking for updates etc.
All they do is rebuild the files that are included by readScript lines in the CR2.