snake oil

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snake oil teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea; Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality; A type of 19th century patent medicine sold in the United States that claimed to contain snake fat, supposedly a Native American remedy for various ailments; A traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain; communication (writen or spoken) intended to deceive; An extremely bad cryptographic product See the Snake Oil FAQ; Bogus cryptography See the Snake Oil FAQ or this paper by Schneier; (medicine) any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthless; Derogatory term applied to a product whose developers describe it with misleading, inconsistent, or incorrect technical statements [18]; liquid that is sold as a cure-all medication by traveling salesman (usually as a scam); deception, trickery, fraud (Slang); Derogatory term applied to a product whose developers describe it with misleading, inconsistent, or incorrect technical statements