cybercrud

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

cybercrud

   <jargon> /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)