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cybercrud en · NOUN

Etymology

From cyber- + crud; coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in Computer Lib (1974).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Computer jargon that serves to obscure and confuse.
    • If the signature is formatted innocuously, it just looks like cybercrud in the mail header to non-crypto-capable recipients. 2002, Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, page 510:
  2. (uncountable) Any worthless material supplied by or relating to computers.
    • The headaches of junk mail fiber-crud pale beside the anxieties triggered by vivid multimedia cybercrud, served up on optical disks and communication links. 1989, Personal Computing, volume 13, page 213: