Cybercrud

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)