From mkarlsson@mit.edu Sun Nov 19 11:02:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!mkarlsson From: mkarlsson@mit.edu (Mike Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov19.110211.8188@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 11:02:11 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. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Mike Karlsson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From rlindqvist@kiae.su Sun Nov 19 13:49:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!rlindqvist From: rlindqvist@kiae.su (Raj Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov19.134911.3963@kiae.su> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 13:49:11 GMT References: <1995Nov19.110211.8188@mit.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov19.110211.8188@mit.edu>, mkarlsson@mit.edu (Mike Karlsson) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. > A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Raj Lindqvist | rlindqvist@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 50D7 FC95 C6A8 7A09 "Keep the channels open." From jgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Nov 20 11:06:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!jgarcia From: jgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jen García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov20.110611.9793@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:06:11 GMT References: <1995Nov19.110211.8188@mit.edu> <1995Nov19.134911.3963@kiae.su> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov19.134911.3963@kiae.su>, rlindqvist@kiae.su (Raj Lindqvist) 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. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Jen García US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From ilarsson@delphi.com Tue Nov 21 11:47:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!delphi!ilarsson From: ilarsson@delphi.com (Ines Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov21.114711.1473@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 11:47:11 GMT References: <1995Nov19.110211.8188@mit.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov19.110211.8188@mit.edu>, mkarlsson@mit.edu (Mike Karlsson) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Ines Larsson Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From aramirez@mit.edu Thu Nov 23 08:07:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!aramirez From: aramirez@mit.edu (Astrid Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov23.080711.7677@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 08:07:11 GMT References: <1995Nov19.110211.8188@mit.edu> <1995Nov21.114711.1473@delphi.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov21.114711.1473@delphi.com>, ilarsson@delphi.com (Ines Larsson) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Astrid Ramírez | aramirez@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 6F9D 08F4 0928 14AC "Keep the channels open."