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Comment by foobarbecue

9 years ago

I suppose the fact that they have patched the binary means they can never again patch the source?

They'd have to re-implement the patch in source before doing anything else to it. I wonder if they are no longer able to build from source anymore... why else would they resort to this?

  • As explained in the article and in other comments, it's possible that there are dependencies that rely on address continuity of contents or file size continuity.