From asato@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Oct 16 07:31:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!asato From: asato@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Aiko Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct16.073108.6215@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 07:31:08 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. 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. -- Aiko Sato US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From mwatanabe@demon.co.uk Thu Oct 17 22:07:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!demon!mwatanabe From: mwatanabe@demon.co.uk (Mei Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Oct17.220708.5350@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:07:08 GMT References: <1996Oct16.073108.6215@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct16.073108.6215@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, asato@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Aiko Sato) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Mei Watanabe Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------