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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
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 serves a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all
    too often users are forced to wade through it.


2. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
cybercrud

    /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory
   tech-talk.  Verbiage with a high MEGO factor.  The computer
   equivalent of bureaucratese.

   2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail.  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 hex for
   PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
   digital signatures and certificates of authenticity.  This
   stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide
   it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-04-04)


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