From mtakahashi@uu.net Sun Feb 13 00:04:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@uu.net (Mikhail Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Feb13.000454.3366@uu.net> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 00:04:54 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Mikhail Takahashi | mtakahashi@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: C251 FBA2 962C 6932 "Keep the channels open." From epark@purdue.edu Sun Feb 13 02:46:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!purdue!epark From: epark@purdue.edu (Elaine Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Feb13.024654.6081@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 02:46:54 GMT References: <1994Feb13.000454.3366@uu.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb13.000454.3366@uu.net>, mtakahashi@uu.net (Mikhail Takahashi) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Elaine Park *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From stanaka@cern.ch Sun Feb 13 16:16:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!stanaka From: stanaka@cern.ch (Sun-mi Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Feb13.161654.5099@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 16:16:54 GMT References: <1994Feb13.000454.3366@uu.net> <1994Feb13.024654.6081@purdue.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Feb13.024654.6081@purdue.edu>, epark@purdue.edu (Elaine Park) writes: > Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Sun-mi Tanaka Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.