In reply to samhotchkiss.

Education as Prelovac notes is the biggest and perhaps most important way to limit those mistakes from happening. All security vulnerabilities are preventable because they don't exist without humans creating them. I too wonder how bad a security vulnerability would need to be in order for the update to override whatever settings WordPress installations have and auto update or if it's even possible for other plugins to do that. Jetpack is not your average plugin you know :)