[h/t Delawareliberal via the Kos ] So the Soapbox blog platform has been hacked, cracked, and dropped. If reports today are correct, the folks at Soapbox have no intention of staying in business. Overwhelmingly (I trust DelDem for this) Soapbox has been a host for liberal/progressive blogs, and so the chatter is about some sort of Conservative/GOPer attack. None of this is new, even though the intensity has increased. For example, at least two political blogs I check fairly frequently (Independent Political Report and Libertarian Republican) have been attacked and taken down for as much as a day or two within recent memory. Bruce Sterling, father of SF cyberpunk, must be bemused to see this happening. You may recall that in the mid-1990s when we were bombing the shit out of the Serbians over Kossovo, Serbia tried to hack both NATO and US sites; groups reportedly associated with Al Qaeda or other Islamist movements have attempted cracking over the past few years, and it used to be t...