From mkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Feb 06 06:10:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!mkowalski From: mkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Mathieu Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb06.061025.8955@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 06:10:25 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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'. 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. -- Mathieu Kowalski *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From gito@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Feb 08 07:47:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!gito From: gito@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Göran Ito) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb08.074725.3988@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 07:47:25 GMT References: <1995Feb06.061025.8955@u-tokyo.ac.jp> 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 <1995Feb06.061025.8955@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, mkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Mathieu Kowalski) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. 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. -- === Göran Ito === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From bsokolov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Feb 09 22:19:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!bsokolov From: bsokolov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Brian Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb09.221925.8458@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 22:19:25 GMT References: <1995Feb06.061025.8955@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Feb08.074725.3988@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb08.074725.3988@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, gito@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Göran Ito) 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. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- === Brian Sokolov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "They will send a copy in my place." From tsato@utexas.edu Sun Feb 12 01:37:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!tsato From: tsato@utexas.edu (Takeshi Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb12.013725.9217@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 01:37:25 GMT References: <1995Feb06.061025.8955@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb06.061025.8955@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, mkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Mathieu Kowalski) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Takeshi Sato | tsato@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 911C BB35 CC10 1D3C "Keep the channels open." From rmuller@unam.mx Sun Feb 12 21:23:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!unam!rmuller From: rmuller@unam.mx (Raj Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb12.212325.2467@unam.mx> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 21:23:25 GMT References: <1995Feb06.061025.8955@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Feb08.074725.3988@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Feb09.221925.8458@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb09.221925.8458@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, bsokolov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Brian Sokolov) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Raj Müller | rmuller@unam.mx PGP Key fingerprint: 8815 3D84 D72C ECFE "Keep the channels open."