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 serves a purpose and
good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are
forced to wade through it.
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