FC: Mexican hackers race clock to decrypt key files before election

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Elections in Mexico are scheduled for July 2. Apparently, according to the 
article below, there are some encrypted files that could prove explosive -- 
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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