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

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Post by lysace »

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

He was the 'CTO' of South Dakota and later the CIO/Commissioner of the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications under governor Kristi Noem.

Edit: (From a European perspective) it seems like the southern states really took over the US establishment. I hadn't really grasped the level of it, before.

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Post by pstuart »

ceejayoz wrote: post #4
sv123 wrote: 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…

This is what you get when you prize personal loyalty over competence.

This issue is the one thing that gives me some hope that they can be ousted -- they are collectively too stupid and motivated only by their self interests to hold their power indefinitely.

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Post by JohnMakin »

mcs5280 wrote: post #11
JohnMakin wrote: post #5

This administration's op-sec has been consistently "barney fife" levels of incompetence.

Pretty sure that's a feature, not a bug

Personally I believe this but it gets into conspiracy theory real quick. There are far simpler explanations.

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Post by booleandilemma »

From wikipedia:

He graduated from Andhra University with a bachelor of engineering in electronics and communication engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington with a master's degree in computer science engineering, the University of Dallas with a Master of Business Administration in engineering and technology management, and Dakota State University with a doctorate in information systems.

And he still manages to make a rookie mistake. Time to investigate Mr. Gottumukkala's credentials. I wouldn't be surprised if he's a fraud.

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Post by miltonlost »

JohnMakin wrote: post #15
mcs5280 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure that's a feature, not a bug

Personally I believe this but it gets into conspiracy theory real quick. There are far simpler explanations.

Incompetence and conspiracies go hand-in-hand.

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Post by Bhilai »

I wonder how far removed the interim director of the CISA is from any real world security. I bet they have not seen or solved any real security problems and merely are an executive looking over cybersec. This probably is another example of why you need rank and file security peeps into security leadership roles rather than some random exec.
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