I reverse-engineered streaming platforms. I can help you protect yours.

My Story

I'm Josh Brody. I was the founder of HeheStreams: a streaming piracy website dedicated to streaming sports live and on-demand.

My website worked differently than most streaming piracy websites. I reverse-engineered the APIs and DRM mechanisms to provide the content directly from their official platforms to my users. I was the first to provide pirated streaming content this way, and it is now the standard method that live streaming piracy operations use today.

This approach was elegant from a technical perspective, but devastating from a business one. It passed infrastructure costs directly to the provider—CDN bandwidth, origin servers, encoding resources. Every stream my users watched was a cost line item on someone else's balance sheet. And because I was pulling directly from legitimate infrastructure, it scaled effortlessly. The platforms were essentially paying to undermine their own subscription model.

The government calculated my operation served at least 33,000 users. I ran it for years before I was caught.

I went to prison for what I built. I paid my debt to society.

What I Offer Now

I was an adversary. Now I want to be an advisor.

Most security consultants tell you about vulnerabilities they've read about or tested in controlled environments. I built a business on exploiting streaming platforms at scale. I know what actually works to defeat your defenses because I did it—successfully, for years, with tens of thousands of users relying on my ability to stay ahead of countermeasures.

Red Team Consulting with Real-World Experience

I offer a red team perspective that can't be taught in a classroom or learned from a textbook. If I wanted to exploit your platform today, I could map out exactly how I'd do it: where I'd start, what I'd look for, which security measures would slow me down and which ones I'd bypass in an afternoon.

This isn't theoretical. This is pattern recognition from someone who spent years studying your defenses from the other side.

What I provide:

• Adversarial analysis of your streaming infrastructure
• Identification of API vulnerabilities that lead to content URL exposure
• Assessment of your DRM implementation's real-world resilience
• Authentication and authorization flow analysis
• CDN abuse pattern identification
• Revenue leakage quantification and mitigation strategies

Beyond Standard Security Measures

There are fundamental weak points across all streaming infrastructure. They exist because of how streaming protocols work, how APIs must be designed to function, and how content delivery networks operate at scale. You cannot architect these weaknesses away—they are inherent to the system.

No platform will ever be completely free from pirates. But you can make exploitation expensive, annoying, and unstable enough that it's not worth the effort for most operators.

This goes beyond rate limiting and bot detection. This goes beyond securing API endpoints and randomizing token generation. This is about understanding the deeper architectural decisions that either resist or enable exploitation.

I can help you:

• Understand which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable at scale vs. security theater
• Identify the economic breaking points where exploitation becomes unprofitable
• Design friction that compounds—where each defensive layer makes the next one harder to bypass
• Spot the difference between casual scraping and professional operation infrastructure
• Recognize when you're being exploited before it shows up in your P&L

Why This Matters for Your Business

Platform operators lose millions to API abuse and credential sharing, but sophisticated exploitation is often invisible until it's massive. By the time you notice the traffic patterns or cost anomalies, someone has already built a sustainable business on top of your infrastructure.

I can identify your exposure before it becomes expensive.

I understand the economics of piracy—what motivates bad actors, what makes an operation sustainable, and what makes a platform not worth the trouble. Most importantly, I know which of your security measures actually work and which ones just make your product managers feel better.

Why Work With Me

I think like your adversary because I was your adversary.

I didn't just find a vulnerability—I built a business model around it. I didn't just break your encryption once—I maintained access through updates, patches, and security improvements. I scaled to tens of thousands of users while staying ahead of detection.

That's not the same as penetration testing. That's sustained adversarial operation.

I believe in the streaming economy now.

I approached it wrong. I undermined the business model instead of participating in it. But I always respected the technical sophistication of these platforms—the engineering that goes into delivering live video to millions of simultaneous viewers is remarkable.

Now I want to help protect that innovation. Not because I've found religion about copyright law, but because I understand both sides of this fight better than almost anyone: I know what you're trying to protect and I know exactly how someone tries to take it.

I'm not hiding from what I did.

This isn't a redemption story. This is a skills translation. I have a rare perspective that's valuable, I've paid the price for how I obtained it, and now I want to put it to work for the platforms instead of against them.