Mostly-off-topic: The `bisect-binary` project listed in the introduction is almost the _exact_ program I made while I was a devious high school student trying

Mostly-off-topic: The `bisect-binary` project listed in the introduction is almost the _exact_ program I made while I was a devious high school student trying to circumvent weak (i.e. most widely-used-) antivirus software by locating a few "key" bytes in the binary that the AV used to fingerprint a virus. I would zero out half the file, scan the file with AV, then recursively repeat the same for any zero'd regions of files that AV didn't consider a virus. Essentially a search of the file for the smallest set of bytes that needed to be changed for AV to fail detection. Usually this would result in only a small number of bytes that needed to be slightly tweaked. Pretty unproductive "hobby", but I must admit it was really fun. :)