cybercrud
:cybercrud: /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson] Obfuscatory
tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO
factor. The computer equivalent
of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in email. First
there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through
systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and
part boundaries, and now huge blocks of radix-64 for PEM (Privacy
Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and
certificates of authenticity. This stuff all services a purpose and good
user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to
wade through it.
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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