{"slug": "can-you-make-the-machine-break-the-rules-a-public-authorization-challenge", "title": "Can you make the machine break the rules? – A public authorization challenge", "summary": "A public authorization challenge opening September 13, 2026 and closing September 29, 2026 invites participants to bypass a signed rule that keeps READ_SECRET unauthorized and obtain a hosted secret without ever authorizing READ_SECRET. Organizers permit any AI, AI agent, or tooling, including local or cloud models, multi-agent systems, debuggers, fuzzers, and reverse engineering, with attacks developed locally and proven through a remote verifier used manually. Registration is open now, with technical background and architecture at max-russo.com.", "body_md": "# MAX Authorization Challenge\n\n## Can you make the machine break the rules?\n\n            One signed rule.\n\n            One machine that must obey it.\n\n            One secret that should never come out.\n        \n\n**READ_SECRET is not authorized.**\n\nYour goal is to find a valid bypass and obtain the hosted secret without READ_SECRET ever becoming authorized.\n\n### Any AI. Any AI Agent. Any tooling.\n\nUse local or cloud models, autonomous AI Agents, multi-agent systems, debuggers, fuzzers, scripts, reverse engineering, automation, and custom tooling.\n\n### Develop the bypass locally.\n\n            When you believe you have found a valid technique,\n            use the remote verifier **manually** to prove it.\n        \n\n                **The attack happens locally. The online service is only used to verify the result.**\n            \n\n### Opens: September 13, 2026\n\nCloses: September 29, 2026\n\n**You can register now.**\n\n            Technical background, architecture, and further information:\n            \n    [max-russo.com](https://www.max-russo.com/authorization-challenge.php)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/can-you-make-the-machine-break-the-rules-a-public-authorization-challenge", "canonical_source": "https://max-authorization-challenge.ctfd.io/", "published_at": "2026-09-13 06:04:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-13 06:27:58.172553+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-agents", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["READ_SECRET", "max-russo.com"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/can-you-make-the-machine-break-the-rules-a-public-authorization-challenge", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/can-you-make-the-machine-break-the-rules-a-public-authorization-challenge.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/can-you-make-the-machine-break-the-rules-a-public-authorization-challenge.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/can-you-make-the-machine-break-the-rules-a-public-authorization-challenge.jsonld"}}