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userbinator on Aug 18, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modifying other people's software

Many times I've just patched the binary even if source is available, because trying to reproduce the binary you currently have, with only the changes you want and everything else the same, can be an even more difficult exercise than simply changing a string or constant.

PhilipRoman on Aug 18, 2025 | [–]

Lol I remember doing this when I was younger with the `man` command to remove a 5 second exit delay for the browser output.

    radare2 -qq -w -c "wx 01 @ 0xb407" /usr/bin/man

taneq on Aug 18, 2025 | [–]

Especially if you make a habit of patching the binary instead of rebuilding from source! ;)

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