From ymoreau@cmu.edu Thu Jul 06 04:47:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!ymoreau From: ymoreau@cmu.edu (Yuki Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul06.044739.9050@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 04:47:39 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Yuki Moreau US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From kmoreau@illinois.edu Fri Jul 07 14:16:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!illinois!kmoreau From: kmoreau@illinois.edu (Kirsty Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul07.141639.3679@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 14:16:39 GMT References: <1995Jul06.044739.9050@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul06.044739.9050@cmu.edu>, ymoreau@cmu.edu (Yuki Moreau) writes: > 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'. 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. -- Kirsty Moreau US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."