Schneier on Security

The answer is yes, this technology can be easy defeated by a good content filter ( who treat these messages simply as spam ) or a packet filter. As known, Skype is one of the most hard applications to be blocked, it easily circumvents content and packet filters, but with a little effort, I have instructed my packet filters to apply a simple and extremly efficient strategy, when my packet filter see a Skype packet, it cut off from the Internet the machine who send it for 4 hours. Users, when starts to understand that Skype was the culprit of this malfunction, simply ceased to use it. So, with no effort, I have hit the target ... so can you imagine what a government can do ? I think that temporarly the FoE tech had surprised censors, but FoE can be considered too weak and it's only a matter of time until be defeated. Maybe, the "old and gold" steganography can be considered more useful, because also if censors discovered the algo it can be changed, so censors must to commit more resources every time until these commitments will be economically or technically unsustainables ...