From ceriksson@mindspring.com Wed Oct 23 02:08:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mindspring!ceriksson From: ceriksson@mindspring.com (Callum Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct23.020806.8973@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:08:06 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com 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. -- === Callum Eriksson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "Row 14. No joke." From jokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de Thu Oct 24 16:20:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!jokonkwo From: jokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de (Julien Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct24.162006.7167@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:20:06 GMT References: <1996Oct23.020806.8973@mindspring.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct23.020806.8973@mindspring.com>, ceriksson@mindspring.com (Callum Eriksson) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- === Julien Okonkwo === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From dgirard@cam.ac.uk Sat Oct 26 05:38:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!dgirard From: dgirard@cam.ac.uk (Diego Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct26.053806.3830@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 05:38:06 GMT References: <1996Oct23.020806.8973@mindspring.com> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct23.020806.8973@mindspring.com>, ceriksson@mindspring.com (Callum Eriksson) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. -- Diego Girard | dgirard@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 1A9C 0310 5C2B C75A "Keep the channels open." From jmoreau@stanford.edu Sat Oct 26 17:12:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!jmoreau From: jmoreau@stanford.edu (Joachim Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct26.171206.4567@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:12:06 GMT References: <1996Oct23.020806.8973@mindspring.com> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct23.020806.8973@mindspring.com>, ceriksson@mindspring.com (Callum Eriksson) 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. -- Joachim Moreau *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0