cybercrud

/si:berkruhd/ , 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.

