From blaurent@mit.edu Sat Jun 17 13:58:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!blaurent From: blaurent@mit.edu (Bastien Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jun17.135835.1510@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 13:58:35 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. 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. -- Bastien Laurent Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------ From joliveira@kth.se Mon Jun 19 03:18:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!joliveira From: joliveira@kth.se (Joachim Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jun19.031835.6468@kth.se> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 03:18:35 GMT References: <1995Jun17.135835.1510@mit.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jun17.135835.1510@mit.edu>, blaurent@mit.edu (Bastien Laurent) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. > Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- === Joachim Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From llopez@stanford.edu Mon Jun 19 21:33:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!llopez From: llopez@stanford.edu (Lars López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jun19.213335.2673@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 21:33:35 GMT References: <1995Jun17.135835.1510@mit.edu> <1995Jun19.031835.6468@kth.se> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun19.031835.6468@kth.se>, joliveira@kth.se (Joachim Oliveira) writes: > Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Lars López Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Row 14. No joke."