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)
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