Paywall Optional: Stream for Free w/ New Technique, RRE
Farzan Karim
DEF CON 33 · Day 2 · Main Stage
Modern streaming platforms and paywalled services invest heavily in content delivery infrastructure, licensing enforcement, and DRM — yet the authorization logic that gates entitlement to that content
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Karimi introduces Recursive Request Exploits (RRE), a technique for systematically traversing API chains in streaming platforms to find entitlement-generating endpoints that trust upstream identifiers without independent authorization checks.