In March 2003, we (at Melior, Inc.) made a dDoS Demo Video,
showing in just under 12 Minutes what our product and company
was all about. This video was produced on DVD and 1,000 copies
were sent to Venture Capitalist firms and potential investors.

The very first copy, drawn on VHS tape directly from the editing computer on Sunday afternoon,
was handed over in person on Monday morning to a NSA representative of the NSA’s COACT in Columbia, MD,
upon which Melior, Inc. became a *full* member of the NSA “Spock” Program, along IBM, Lookheed Martin, et al ... :-)

You can watch this video on YouTube,

or download a 150 MB copy (<-- right-click) in universal HQ DivX format.

The making of this video is a story in itself, reflecting the struggles
of an underfunded start-up company, which accomplished a lot despite that fact.

Melior Inc. CyberWarfare Defense on You Tube

WATCH THE FLASH-BASED, LOW-RESOLUTION VERSION
ON YOUTUBE RIGHT HERE:

Note the clever disguise coding we (i.e. Evan Langlois) programmed for the Demo Server: making it look like running “Micro$oft IIS / 4.0” on a “Commodore 64” platform - at 3:15 ff - in this video ... both of which we wouldn’t have touched even for money.

... You have no idea on how low a budget this Commercial / Demo was made, edited, and distributed since 2003 (usually costs $50k plus to make):    :-)

• all footage shot during one weekend in March 2003
• with professional Camera & Capture equipment insured for over $50,000
• with a video / camera crew usually producing adult material in Russia
• total actual cost: $515 from MP&E and a lot of favours called in
• footage edited and cut during two weeks after taping
   
• The FIRST copy (on VHS video tape) was hand-carried by me to COACT / the NSA in Columbia, Maryland, USA (for a meeting I had anyway - during which Melior Inc. became a full member of the NSA SPOCK program)
   
• distributed on 300 custom-made DVD’s, mailed to all top Venture Capitalists
  (total cost: $1,100 for DVD production and printing, plus postage to mail)
   
• distributed on 1,748 F.I.R.E. CD’s shipped throughout the World
• distributed digitally via the Internet ~780,000 times (... and still counting)
   
• Locations:
   
• “The Planet” Data Centre in Dallas (since 2010 a SoftLayer site)
  (Melior, Inc. CyberWarfare Defense was their first and only major customer
  for a long while after the data centre opened)
   
• Roof-Top of a local TV Station in Dallas, Texas,
  with a view of Downtown and Reunion Tower
  (we blew the fuse of the elevator, when we filmed the footage well after midnight; so all equipment had to be carried up and down manually)
   
• Professional Credit goes to Kevin Hurley (his company today) and his Team - and of course to the rest of the original Melior Early Core Team seen in this video: Matt Gair, Christopher Brice Turner, Evan Langlois, and Josh Goldman
  
  
   

My personal part, besides orchestrating the whole thing:

• was done last - at 3 AM on Sunday morning
• unscripted (!) - we were all too tired to make it 110% perfect

Read the whole story in this section or on the Melior website: dDoS.com

... and: today (insert the date when you read this), so many years after I had to shut the company down due to insufficient funding, there is still no other dDoS or PenTest Defence Technology coming even remotely close to what be proved to be working - by saving over 300 million users against dDoS attacks and showing the last code release in January 2005.

P.S.: as of this latest tidbit update in February 2013, all of the original production models from first prototypes to last production models still exist - some still working at former trial customer sites, the rest in secure storage.

For complete countries have been shut down by Denial of Service attacks since the first big-news attacks in 1999: whole industries have been blackmailed in “dDoS protection” rackets, cyberwarfare and other special interest attacks have occurred (a brief history), and there will be the day when demand for the only (!) working solution will come --- not that I am waiting for it: life goes on.

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