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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cybercrud</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cut-a-tape.html" title="cut a tape"/><link rel="next" href="cyberpunk.html" title="cyberpunk"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cybercrud</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cut-a-tape.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="cyberpunk.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cybercrud"/><dt xmlns="" id="cybercrud"><b>cybercrud</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/si:<3A>ber<65>kruhd/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [coined by Ted Nelson] Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a
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high <a href="../M/MEGO.html"><i class="glossterm">MEGO</i></a> factor. The computer equivalent of
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bureaucratese. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in email. First there were the
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“<span class="quote">Received</span>” headers that show how mail flows through systems,
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then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part
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boundaries, and now huge blocks of radix-64 for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail)
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or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of
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authenticity. This stuff all serves a purpose and good user interfaces
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should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through
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it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cut-a-tape.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="cyberpunk.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cut a tape<70></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>cyberpunk</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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