資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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.
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(1995-04-04)