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.