‘Quadrant’ hacked

The following results if you try a google search on Quadrant at the moment:
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This from skepticlawyer at catallaxy, blog post dated 5th March 2007:

Just followed the instructions, and sure enough, Quadrant has been blacklisted. Some people I’ve communicated with in Quadrant claim it got on the service’s bad books because of a hacker inserting malicious code into their site. On top of various other mirrors/hacks in recent times – Tim Blair, Jeremy Sear and no doubt plenty I don’t know about – it seems that the political cyber-wars are in full swing. As someone who writes for Quadrant from time to time, I’m rather cheesed off.

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And this from me [Ralph]:
Quadrant has an interesting history. A forceful and effective champion of the Right, the magazine’s been variously received in other circles, as evidenced by this excerpt from a 1995 interview with Pete Hay and Richard Flanagan:

[Interview extract]:
Hay and Flanagan have been closely involved with Island magazine in the past, both having served on the Island Board, whilst Hay has also been an associate editor. With Island currently under the editorship of Rodney Croome the pair hold high hopes for its future.

When asked their opinions of other literary journals around the country, they toss forward the names Eureka Street, Quadrant and Australian Book Review as magazines they respect.

Flanagan: “Eureka Street has been a huge success story because it uses short thoughtful articles by interesting people on good subjects, and has a bloody fine editor. And Australian Book Review actually debates literary issues in a way that’s readable and intelligible.”

Hay: “I’ve never bought Quadrant and will continue not to buy it because of its history, but I still think it’s one of the best magazines around at the moment. Robert Manne is an ideological conservative, everything I’m not, but in a sense what Manne’s doing is not establishment. His personal politics are establishment but his cultural politics aren’t, and I often find myself in agreement with him.”

Flanagan: “Well basically – and bloody hell, I hate to say this too – it’s a magazine with integrity.”

Hay: “I’ve never submitted anything to Quadrant because it’s a prisoner of its history. But Manne I’ve got a huge amount of time for. If he walked through the door now mate, we’d all get on famously with him. He’s an interesting and independent thinker. But because Quadrant is the magazine that for two decades was funded by the CIA, I can’t submit material to it.”

Flanagan: “I would never ever buy a Quadrant, I mean I’m totally in accordance with you Hazy, and it saddens me because essentially what it points to is the fact that there is a much more robust right-wing cultural tradition in this country, of integrity, of independence, than there is a left-wing tradition.”

Hay: “Couldn’t agree more.”