{"id":4285,"date":"2025-10-28T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:29:02","slug":"adversarial-robustness-in-pub-sub-visualization-poison-flood-and-replay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=4285","title":{"rendered":"Adversarial Robustness in Pub\/Sub Visualization: Poison, Flood, and Replay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-spectrcyde wp-block-embed-spectrcyde\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CnY24uq9Gi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?page_id=4282\">Adversarial Robustness in Pub\/Sub Visualization: Poison, Flood, and Replay<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Adversarial Robustness in Pub\/Sub Visualization: Poison, Flood, and Replay&#8221; &#8212; Spectrcyde\" src=\"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?page_id=4282&#038;embed=true#?secret=ACe806qLgD#?secret=CnY24uq9Gi\" data-secret=\"CnY24uq9Gi\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Visualization servers that subscribe to live intelligence<br>topics face adversarial traffic: malformed payloads (poison),<br>bursts (flood), and stale replays. Heavy cryptographic defenses are effective but often incompatible with latency and<br>interoperability constraints. We ask: how far can we get<br>with two pragmatic controls\u2014envelope checks and per-source<br>quota\u2014before resorting to heavyweight machinery?<br>We make three contributions: (1) a broker-agnostic harness<br>that injects attacks and measures end-to-end metrics; (2) an<br>evaluation of defense combinations across SNR\/load grids;<br>(3) actionable guidance for engineering viz paths that remain<br>robust under fire.<br>II. THREAT MODEL<br>We consider adversaries capable of: (i) poison\u2014sending syntactically well-formed but semantically harmful payloads; (ii)<br>flood\u2014transmitting bursts that exhaust buffers; (iii) replay\u2014resending previously valid messages. Defenses: envelope checks<br>enforces schema, type, range, and length; per-source quota<br>caps per-source ingress with sliding windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visualization servers that subscribe to live intelligencetopics face adversarial traffic: malformed payloads (poison),bursts (flood), and stale replays. Heavy cryptographic defenses are effective but often incompatible with latency andinteroperability constraints. We ask: how far can we getwith two pragmatic controls\u2014envelope checks and per-sourcequota\u2014before resorting to heavyweight machinery?We make three contributions: (1) a broker-agnostic harnessthat injects attacks&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=4285\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adversarial Robustness in Pub\/Sub Visualization: Poison, Flood, and Replay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-signal_scythe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}