Quite long ago, I read a fairly similar article (without this ridiculous commentary, of course). It went something like this:

- a friend asks author to try and hack him

- author tries a bunch of things in vain, finally decides to use a rogue wireless AP and does a MITM

- identifies that notepad++ has automatic updates turned on and that it's over HTTP

- creates a custom executable and writes a script (or something) to serve this payload when notepad++ tries to download a EXE

- fakes an update (by returning true when notepad++ queries an HTTP endpoint for the latest version on startup)

I'd be really thankful if someone could link me to this post. My usually powerful google-fu has let me down this time (I tried all _sorts_ of things). Notepad++ and MITM are the only things I strongly remember.