I used to view steganography as a viable mitigation strategy for the outlawing of encryption.
Over the years, I've come to consider steganography as inadequate as a means of mass communication, as the more people know about how to receive a stegonographic message the less effective it is at hiding the content.
Steganography is most useful in one-on-one communication where the means to read the message is exchanged in a secondary secure channel of communication. Sadly, this just does not scale well.
For this and other reasons, I've kind of become pessimistic about the security and privacy of communication using computers, and even more so towards such security and privacy being available to the masses.
The US is giving up it's supremacy in most areas, but that doesn't mean the world won't have viable encryption. It will just come from a more reasonable country.
Over the years, I've come to consider steganography as inadequate as a means of mass communication, as the more people know about how to receive a stegonographic message the less effective it is at hiding the content.
Steganography is most useful in one-on-one communication where the means to read the message is exchanged in a secondary secure channel of communication. Sadly, this just does not scale well.
For this and other reasons, I've kind of become pessimistic about the security and privacy of communication using computers, and even more so towards such security and privacy being available to the masses.