On Feb 9, 2016, at 17:53 , Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> The appcast supplies the URL for the release notes, so that can be updated to 
> https without having to republish the app itself. That makes this a lot less 
> trouble than it seems.

Yes, but the appcast itself is vulnerable to separate attack, if your access to 
it is http. (Its URL is specified in the bundle plist.)

>> Already updated to use https, but of course the problem is that in itself 
>> requires a Sparkle update… 

Yes, but it’s no worse a problem than the one you started with.

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