CTFs are puzzles meant to challenge you and help you learn new things. Sometimes they may be a little ambiguous or misleading. That's part of the challenge! Once you successfully solve a challenge, you’ll capture a "digital flag" (a unique-to-you string). Save that flag, then upload it to receive credit and move up the Kaggle leaderboard. 

Feel free to drop questions in the Kaggle Discussion forums, but don’t share code or spoilers! Please do not try and hack any infrastructure or share flags. Any teams found sharing flags will be disqualified. For help, contact us on [Discord](http://www.discord.gg/kaggle) or use the Kaggle discussion board.

Competition host [AI Village](https://aivillage.org/) is a community of hackers and data scientists working to educate the world on the use and abuse of artificial intelligence in security and privacy. They aim to bring more diverse viewpoints to this field and grow the community of hackers, engineers, researchers, and policymakers working on making AI safer. They believe that we need more people with a hacker mindset assessing and analyzing machine learning systems. They have a presence at DEFCON, the world’s longest-running and largest hacking conference.

Winners will be asked to share their notebooks. Checkout the [starter notebook](https://www.kaggle.com/code/moohax/ctf-starter-aiv)!