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> Apparenlty, nobody who is claiming this has _tried_ it.  Try it yourself

Apparently yo misunderstood what people were claiming. Nobody said
you can modify a running binary, merely that you can replace it. try
deleting it and writing a new one. it does work, I do this all the time!

-pcf.