Impossibility_of_Non_Cheating_Adversarial_Breaks

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Authors: Amos Maley
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Abstract

This paper establishes that no adversarial break of an admissibility-enforcing system can occur without cheating. Under enforced admissibility and standing conservation, every apparent successful adversarial exploit is shown to rely on at least one illicit move: scope expansion, standing transfer, hidden redefinition, or deferred evaluation. The analysis proceeds by exhaustion. It demonstrates that attacks framed as clever strategy, emergent behavior, probabilistic flukes, or lawful edge-case exploitation all collapse once admissibility is applied fail-closed. What remains are only cheating behaviors—inputs or redescriptions that bypass, disable, or misrepresent admissibility constraints rather than operating within them. The result clarifies why adversarial success is not a spectrum and why “legitimate but hostile” breaks are structurally impossible. There is no admissible notion of an honest exploit. The paper introduces no defensive mechanisms or testing procedures. It records an impossibility result fixing adversarial failure as the necessary outcome for any system that genuinely enforces admissibility.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Security and Verification in Computing Information and Cyber Security

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
7 February 2026