Graffiti-busting: defacers and solutions May 05 2000 Pete Thomas, Editor, Securitywatch.com - peter.thomas@securitywatch.com (05/05/2000) Picture the scene. You're an overworked webmaster. You're woken up at 5 am. On a Monday morning. By an angry call from the CEO. Let's call him Bill. Bill's in the Middle East on a business trip. He's sitting in the air-conditioned office of a multi-million dollar prospect. He describes the corporate homepage. Bill tells you that it begins with the message "U hAv3 b1N 0wN3d". It's written in something Bill describes as "some weirdo script". You realize it's defacer typography - the mixture of bad spelling, numerals, lower and upper case characters that is usually seen on personalized car license plates. Bill is especially unhappy about the image of two smurfs copulating in the middle of the screen.

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