November 2015 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris

This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.

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Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please post only under one of the already created subthreads, and never directly under the parent media thread.
Use the "Other Media" thread if you believe the piece of media you want to discuss doesn't fit under any of the established categories.
Use the "Meta" thread if you want to discuss about the monthly media thread itself (e.g. to propose adding/removing/splitting/merging subthreads, or to discuss the type of content properly belonging to each subthread) or for any other question or issue you may have about the thread or the rules.

I don't know. I'm taking that argument from authority and posting it, in part, to remind myself to reprocess the ideas when I'm better prepared to receive them.

The following link trail conditioned my interpretation:

Zero-Knowledge Proof is a very new, very speculative field with few if any academic research - plus, it is currently plagued with the trusted accumulator issue (you have to trust the very first "user"), scalability issue and, more intrinsic to the procedure, issues with wholly obscured economy, which prevents detecting a bug/exploit until it is much too late. Also, ZKP is considered doubtful.

Where the author here hyperlinks to the above article with 'doubtful'

The blogpost you linked to is explaining, in detail, with a worked example, that zero-knowledge proofs are possible. The only thing in it that even slightly matches the reddit guy's view is the sidenote near the beginning pointing out that just because someone claims a cryptosystem is zero-knowledge, doesn't mean they're actually right, or that the cryptosystem is secure.