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CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

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Re: CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

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The Dept of Homeland Security has had its own internal gen-AI chat bot since before Trump took office [0]. That this guy couldn’t make do with that, and didn’t think through the repercussions of uploading non-public documents to a public chatbot doesn’t bode well for his ability to manage CISA

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2024/12/17/dhss-responsible...

Re: CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

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Sounds about on par with what I would expect competence wise.

Hand-picked by Noem, so yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu_Gottumukkala

> In April 2025, secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem named Gottumukkala as the deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; he began serving in the position on May 16. That month, Gottumukkala told personnel at the agency that much of its leadership was resigning and that he would serve as its acting director beginning on May 30.

Re: CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

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This is a "Cybersecurity chief" causing an intern-level IT incident.

In many industries, this would be a rapid incident at the company-level and also an immediate fireable offense and in some governments this would be a complete massive scandal + press conference broadcasted across the country.

Re: CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

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post #4
post #3

Sounds about on par with what I would expect competence wise.

Hand-picked by Noem, so yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu_Gottumukkala > In April 2025, secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem named Gottumukkala as the deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; he began serving in the position on May 16. That month, Gottumukkala told personnel at the agency that much of its leadership was resigning and that he would serve as its acting dire…

> Gottumukkala had requested to see access to a controlled access program—an act that would require taking a polygraph

Are the US ok? It's 2026 not 1926

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