Was that the final solution or just for debugging purposes? It doesn't seem like you'd want to make binary patches the next time that software got updated
In the article she indicates it was for proving her hypothesis regarding the source of the problem. She then sent an actual patch upstream to fix it. It was faster this way because of the way the binary did bitwise flags for options. Flipping a single bit in the binary was quicker than recompiling bit twiddling code to for testing purposes.
