From smoreau@kiae.su Sat Jul 16 01:22:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!smoreau From: smoreau@kiae.su (Sergei Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jul16.012203.1884@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 01:22:03 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Sergei Moreau | smoreau@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: B332 7252 998C 286C "Keep the channels open." From gkowalski@mit.edu Sun Jul 17 03:03:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!gkowalski From: gkowalski@mit.edu (Graham Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jul17.030303.6301@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 03:03:03 GMT References: <1994Jul16.012203.1884@kiae.su> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul16.012203.1884@kiae.su>, smoreau@kiae.su (Sergei Moreau) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- === Graham Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "We don't sign stars. We build them." From lpark@stanford.edu Sun Jul 17 07:40:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!lpark From: lpark@stanford.edu (Lars Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jul17.074003.4259@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 07:40:03 GMT References: <1994Jul16.012203.1884@kiae.su> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Jul16.012203.1884@kiae.su>, smoreau@kiae.su (Sergei Moreau) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Lars Park Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From eschneider@mit.edu Mon Jul 18 22:01:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!eschneider From: eschneider@mit.edu (Élodie Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jul18.220103.8792@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 22:01:03 GMT References: <1994Jul16.012203.1884@kiae.su> <1994Jul17.074003.4259@stanford.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul17.074003.4259@stanford.edu>, lpark@stanford.edu (Lars Park) writes: > Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Élodie Schneider "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / TOS 4.04