15 Oct
2001
15 Oct
'01
1:59 p.m.
Schneier did the World a great favor by helping popularize awareness of crypto. Now he should just shut up, along with Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy. Go back to work.
Schneier has never really cared much for steganography and he seems to take every opportunity to belittle it. In _Secrets and Lies_, he argues that he's never received images in email and so steganography will fail for lack of a channel.
In any case, there are plenty of business uses of whatever might be called steganography. The term itself is difficult to pin down because it could include many things that people do without realizing that they're engaged in steganography.