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cybercrud
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/si:berkruhd/ , n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson] Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage
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with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2.
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Incomprehensible stuff embedded in email. First there were the Received
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headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose
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Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks
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of radix-64 for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
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digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all serves a
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purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are
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forced to wade through it.
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