The novelty isn't binary patching itself. Its the the barrier to entry. Manually locating an bug in compiled code and calculating offsets used to require good skills and knowledge in the domain. Here, someone described the symptoms in a prompt (reminder, still plain English) and got an binary patch without touching a disassembler. To me, that's unbelievable.
Studying and patching binaries has always been done. This is not new.
The novelty isn't binary patching itself. Its the the barrier to entry. Manually locating an bug in compiled code and calculating offsets used to require good skills and knowledge in the domain. Here, someone described the symptoms in a prompt (reminder, still plain English) and got an binary patch without touching a disassembler. To me, that's unbelievable.