LogJam Intelligent Log Stealthing released

[zylor]

OK, I'm cranky. I just get this thing about ready to release, and Sony pulls this crap with the Firmware update.

Ah well. They still collect your logs, even if you don't sign in, so here is my contribution: LogJam "Proof of Concept". It cleans up your logs, not by erasing them (easy thing to spot!!), and not by copying the same data to them (again, VERY easy to spot), but by clearing out invalid entries, homebrew, games that don't belong in your region, etc... and replaces them, if needed, with valid games, randomly.

The code is there, written in C, not compilable as is (built with PSL1GHT), but authors of Backup Managers are welcome to incorporate the "LogJam" Stealthing routines.

Read the Readme.txt file included.

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(Small update to make sure patch.dat looks good)

Oh, and it's packaged for installation with KMEAW firmware. If somebody wants to repackage it for others, go for it. I'm too tired, and have too much real work ahead of me.

Yeah, news pales compared to the firmware update. Blah Blah Blah... Sony is always trying to steal my thunder.

Here is it..

I'm waiting for it to be ported to wutangrza cfw

[dadi4168]

I'm willing to try this.

[zylor]

Could anyone port this to wutangrza cfw? please?

[dadi4168]

Well, in between ripping the rest of my collection, I installed this and ran it. I had to use the DNS trick to get online, but it seems to work fine so far. Under What's New it placed Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Astro Tripper. Nice. (obviously I'm using 3.55 KMEAW)

[baptistdog]

looks good

[Ben Jeremy]

Thanks to those giving it a shot and verifying it's working as it should.

As I said in the post, I hope the authors of the various backup managers incorporate this into their apps. The log files are the easiest way for Sony to track homebrew users (and thusly, "hacked" PS3s). They have other things they can check, too... (such as being logged into PSN when using an app with a homebrew AppId) but this at least gives everybody a fighting chance against Sony datamining their log database.

Sorry it's not signed for anything other than KMEAW... I haven't really dinked around with the package signing tools yet. Hopefully with the release of 3.56, some kind soul who has the npdrm keys (not Geohot, of course, but some anonymous hacker who also had the keys) will release them finally, particularly since not releasing them has done nothing to prevent piracy.

To be honest, given the lawsuit, and 3.56, even the most anti-piracy hacker in the scene should consider releasing "the rest of it" - all of the keys hacked since fail0verflow's presentation. There is a lot more out there than what we've seen.

[VriskaBlack]

This is awesome, but I have 1 request.
Would it be possible to enter pre-defined games, so that it shows games that I legitimately own?
It might be weird if every time I log on to PSN I have 5 games I've never played before and never will again in my list.

[Ben Jeremy]

This is awesome, but I have 1 request.
Would it be possible to enter pre-defined games, so that it shows games that I legitimately own?
It might be weird if every time I log on to PSN I have 5 games I've never played before and never will again in my list.

You can edit the configuration (see the README). You have to know the game ids (you can look them up here for disc games, not sure on PSN games).

When it generates the configuration, it uses all of the (valid, region-specific) games installed on your system. If you want to trim the list, you can simply delete those GameIds you don't want to show up from the config file.

Make sure you use a Linux-friendly editor, like Notepad++ or actually use Linux and edit in gedit. Windows Notepad will destroy the format (the lines MUST be terminated only by newlines, and not include carriage returns).

I was going to get fancier with it, including a comprehensive "pool" of apps for each region, but I'd have to collect all the data to do that (not just game ids, but app versions and sdk versions). I considered calling for volunteers to let me scour their drives for data, but that might have sounded fishy to people who don't know who I am from the Xbox days, and it would have taken a lot longer to get out.

[Ben Jeremy]

Very nice release Ben.
Shame about the 3.56 news raining on your parade.

Well, my parades are usually the boring kind with the Shriners zipping around with their little go-karts and farmers on horses, crapping up the street '(the horses, not the farmers... ok, maybe the farmers too).

I'll have some cooler stuff down the road. This was just to get my feet wet - my "X-Select" for the PS3 world.

[kingjoko]

Very cool ! im sure this will prove to be a big hit !!