Re: "Crypto" means Cryptosporidium
"CDC", when I was in uni, stood for Control Data Corporation
From the Jargon File:
In 1989, a random of the journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin "What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90s?" Paul's straight-faced response: "There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms"