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Encyclopedia: Snake oil
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In cryptography, snake oil is a term used to describe commercial cryptographic methods and products which are considered bogus or fraudulent.
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This page describes the term snake oil and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information. The term snake oil, which is credited to Matt Curtin for using in reference to computer security products, comes from the 19th-century American practice of selling cure-all elixirs in traveling medicine...
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Some gadgets change the world. Others don't. These ones, however, are very effective at one thing in particular: teleporting money out of customers'
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Amazon.com: Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine (9780195313680): R. Barker Bausell PhD: Books.
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This is the premise of Silicon Snake-Oil. We should spend less time teaching people where to click and more time teaching people WHY to click there! Just because someone can download a fancy picture of the devastation of the rainforest doesn't mean they have the slightest clue about what it means.
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MySpace Music profile for Snake Oil Medicine Show. Download Snake Oil Medicine Show Psychobilly / Bluegrass / Reggae music singles, watch music videos, listen to free streaming mp3s, & read Snake Oil Medicine Show's blog. Snake Oil Medicine Show; Psychobilly / Bluegrass / Reggae...
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"In over 30 years of collecting and selling antiques, I have seen the gambit of products from sperm whale oil to synthetics and I have not found anything better than Old West snake Oil. With its all natural formula, I haven't found any other product I like better.";
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The Snake Oil FAQ is posted monthly to sci.crypt, alt.security, comp.security, comp.answers, and comp.infosystems. It is available in PostScript and PDF form (ideal for printing) via the web at This is a compilation of common habits of snake oil vendors. It cannot be the sole method of rating a security product,
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Weekly etymology webzine It may be that, but it may also be simply that people knew from experience that a medicine made of snake oil wouldn't do anything for them, and so anyone trying to sell it was trying to pull the wool over their eyes (which is another expression originating in the U.S.).
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