From tperez@kth.se Thu Dec 19 08:28:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!tperez From: tperez@kth.se (Thiago Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Dec19.082808.5420@kth.se> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:28:08 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se 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. 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 decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Thiago Pérez "Row 14. No joke." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / SunOS 4.1.4 From nlindqvist@mindspring.com Thu Dec 19 10:27:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!nlindqvist From: nlindqvist@mindspring.com (Nadia Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Dec19.102708.6416@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:27:08 GMT References: <1996Dec19.082808.5420@kth.se> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec19.082808.5420@kth.se>, tperez@kth.se (Thiago Pérez) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Nadia Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From nperez@berkeley.edu Fri Dec 20 13:01:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!berkeley!nperez From: nperez@berkeley.edu (Nadine Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Dec20.130108.8900@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:01:08 GMT References: <1996Dec19.082808.5420@kth.se> <1996Dec19.102708.6416@mindspring.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec19.102708.6416@mindspring.com>, nlindqvist@mindspring.com (Nadia Lindqvist) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Nadine Pérez | nperez@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 7E49 67D1 EB3C C058 "Keep the channels open."