Security News > 2000 > June > Mexican Computer Hackers to the Rescue of Democracy
http://www.narconews.com/hackers1.html Translated excerpts from today's Proceso online: With "hackers," the PRD party seeks the PRI's password in the Fobaproa matter. Mexico City: The PRD faction in the federal Congress is already working with "hackers" and five computers in search of the combination of numbers and letters to know what is the password of the PRI that would permit knowing the names of who appears in the list of Fobaproa. PRD Congress member Dolores Padierna announced that it is now known that there are not five keys to the CD disk, but rather six. The sixth password, beyond that for each of the five factions in the Lower House, belonged to the Canadian auditor Michael Mackey. The "hackers" have already obtained it, Padierna informed, and said that the password that the PAN gave through Vicente Fox had been altered: "They changed a letter, they don't know who did it or how it happened, but this is also being investigated and will be made public." Padierna said that the hackers are working around the clock and that it's not a simple task, but neither is it impossible that they will have the key at any moment. ...The legislator said she trusts that if they could break the code of the Canadian auditor Michael Mackey, it is also possible to find that of the PRI. The "hackers" with whom they are working will remain anonymous, she said... "They are simply technicians, they don't have legal immunity and we're not going to place in risk their names nor prestige, but they are people who are truly qualified." June 19, 2000 copyright Informacin y Comunicacin SA de CV Narco News Commentary: If the hackers succeed in breaking the code before the July 2nd election, the Mexican people will have, for the first time, knowledge of the interlocking world of bank corruption, campaign finance, drug money and electoral fraud. The impact could well be explosive and determinative in the elections. For background on what FOBAPROA -- the bank fraud bailout that cost the Mexican people $80 billion dollars -- has to do with the drug war, see our recent report: http://www.narconews.com/fraud1994.html *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".