1. cybercrud
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.
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Definitions of cybercrud
