[Elder of Ziyon] Israeli art school redesigns hacked webpages for Arab hackers

To Israelis who are under constant cyber-attack, the most offensive part is that the hackers have no sense of style.

From Business Insider:

Students from HaBezefer, the Israeli school of advertising and art, and ad agency McCann Digital Israel, came up with an unconventional response to cyberattacks: Re-design hacked takeover pages so they look more aesthetically pleasing.

McCann Digital art director Nir Refuah told BI that "Israel is under constant cyber attacks each month, dozens of Israeli websites are being hacked by Arab hacker groups and replaced with anti-Israeli web pages."

While McCann and the students didn't have an immediate answer to end the wave of cyberattacks, they did come up with a way to solve their other hacking qualms, the "uninspired designs each time: black background, grotesque low-res images and unbearable amounts of text."

The solution? Students found 50 hacked pages, and while they kept the content, they redesigned the pages to look more cheerful. Refuah told BI that the students sent the redesign templates to various hacker group forums with the message, "We would like to end all cyber wars, but in the meantime -- if you must hack our sites, at least leave something beautiful."

You can see how the students packaged their work as if they were presenting it to a potential client here.

So here are some old, ugly hacked Israeli sites, and how Betzefer re-designed them:

I love it!

(h/t Israellycool)



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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder of Ziyon at 7/25/2012 12:25:00 PM