You're confusing the binary format with the tamper protection, or file "sealing". The two features are really independent.
Re:Escape from systemd
by marcosdumay on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:59PM
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"They" were not very successful in this, like they weren't in any other stability related feature.
Huh? I thought that they introduced this weird binary log format precisely to avoid this kind of error. (I don't remember the exact reasoning, though.)