From tdubois@kiae.su Sun Feb 12 02:03:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kiae!tdubois From: tdubois@kiae.su (Tyler Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb12.020304.8614@kiae.su> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 02:03:04 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. 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 decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Tyler Dubois Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ckim@illinois.edu Mon Feb 13 11:33:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!illinois!ckim From: ckim@illinois.edu (Camila Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb13.113304.6029@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:33:04 GMT References: <1995Feb12.020304.8614@kiae.su> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb12.020304.8614@kiae.su>, tdubois@kiae.su (Tyler Dubois) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Camila Kim *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From bnakamura@purdue.edu Wed Feb 15 05:14:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!purdue!bnakamura From: bnakamura@purdue.edu (Brian Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb15.051404.3034@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 05:14:04 GMT References: <1995Feb12.020304.8614@kiae.su> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Feb12.020304.8614@kiae.su>, tdubois@kiae.su (Tyler Dubois) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. Marcus in Mexico was a rock musician. Marcus in Korea was an architect. Marcus in Japan was a poet. Who was Marcus in the US? PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Brian Nakamura "Row 14. No joke." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / TOS 4.04