From mlee@berkeley.edu Sun Apr 21 23:12:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!mlee From: mlee@berkeley.edu (Matthias Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Apr21.231234.7187@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 23:12:34 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. 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. -- Matthias Lee SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From dkang@stanford.edu Tue Apr 23 11:33:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!dkang From: dkang@stanford.edu (Diego Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Apr23.113334.7470@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:33:34 GMT References: <1996Apr21.231234.7187@berkeley.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Apr21.231234.7187@berkeley.edu>, mlee@berkeley.edu (Matthias Lee) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Diego Kang Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Stanford University Computer Systems Lab. ------------------------------------------------------------