From skim@earthlink.net Wed Feb 08 08:04:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!skim From: skim@earthlink.net (Sergei Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb08.080428.4075@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 08:04:28 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. 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? -- Sergei Kim | skim@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: FDB7 909A D5F7 59AB "Keep the channels open." From mhughes@inria.fr Wed Feb 08 20:14:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!mhughes From: mhughes@inria.fr (Mathieu Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb08.201428.5022@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 20:14:28 GMT References: <1995Feb08.080428.4075@earthlink.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb08.080428.4075@earthlink.net>, skim@earthlink.net (Sergei Kim) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. 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. -- Mathieu Hughes -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From jstewart@rwth-aachen.de Wed Feb 08 21:35:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!jstewart From: jstewart@rwth-aachen.de (Joachim Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb08.213528.4443@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 21:35:28 GMT References: <1995Feb08.080428.4075@earthlink.net> <1995Feb08.201428.5022@inria.fr> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb08.201428.5022@inria.fr>, mhughes@inria.fr (Mathieu Hughes) writes: > 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. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Joachim Stewart -- RWTH Aachen Informatik "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mgonzalez@cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 09 10:31:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@cam.ac.uk (Mathieu González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb09.103128.6025@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 10:31:28 GMT References: <1995Feb08.080428.4075@earthlink.net> <1995Feb08.201428.5022@inria.fr> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb08.201428.5022@inria.fr>, mhughes@inria.fr (Mathieu Hughes) writes: > 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. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Mathieu González "They will send a copy in my place." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / NEXTSTEP 3.3