[7362] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Mexican hackers race clock to decrypt key files before election
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Thu Jun 22 14:40:23 2000
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:25:42 -0400
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@wired.com>
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[Elections in Mexico are scheduled for July 2. Apparently, according to the
article below, there are some encrypted files that could prove explosive --
info on corruption, drug money, etc. -- if they're decrypted in time. --Declan]
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>From: "Alberto M. Giordano" <narconews@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Mexican Hackers to the Rescue of Democracy
>Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:57:26 CDT
>
>
>Narco News publishes early tonight with
>a bulldog edition:
>
>"Mexican Computer Hackers working
>'round the clock' to Open Fobaproa
>File"
>
>http://www.narconews.com/hackers1.html
>
>and related story:
>
>"PAN ACCUSES PRI: NARCO
>Calls for Investigation of Labastida Money"
>
>The web of drug money, the Fobaproa bank
>bailout and electoral fraud explodes as an
>issue in the final stretch to the July 2nd
>Mexican elections.
>
>Right now, the future is in the hands of
>the hackers...
>
>developing....
>
>Al Giordano
>publisher
>The Narco News Bulletin
>http://www.narconews.com/
>narconews@hotmail.com
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