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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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Post by 0xy »

JohnMakin wrote: post #5

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

And when the CCP compromised the law enforcement portal for every American ISP, stealing info on 80% of Americans, including both the Kamala and Trump campaigns, under the previous admin it was rock solid op-sec, presumably.

Or when the previous admin leaked classified Iran attack plans from the Pentagon, so bad that they didn't even know whether they were hacked or not.

You can at least pretend to make a technical argument over a political one.

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

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Post by b00ty4breakfast »

nostrademons wrote: post #50
dmix wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article says > [ChatGPT] is blocked for other Department of Homeland Security staff. Gottumukkala “was granted permission to use ChatGPT with DHS controls in place,” adding that the use was “short-term and limited.” He had a special exemption to use it as head of Cyber and still got flagged by cybersecurity checks. So obviously they don't think it's safe to use broadly. They already have a deal with OpenAI to bui…

Somehow I think that the weak link in our government security is at the top - the President, his cabinet, and various heads of agencies. Because nobody questions what they're allowed to do, and so they're exempt from various common-sense security protocols. We already saw some pretty egregious security breaches from Pete Hegseth.

whether he is personally and directly responsible for this specific incident, his leadership absolutely sets the tone for the rest of the federal government.

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

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Post by JohnMakin »

stronglikedan wrote: post #44
JohnMakin wrote: post #5

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

It's been the same with every administration, unfortunately. It's just a side effect of such an unnecessarily big goverment.

Are you sure? This guy didn't pass a counterintelligence polygraph. Like, the one that asks "are you sure you're not a spy?"

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

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Post by heliumtera »

stronglikedan wrote: post #42
BiscuitBadger wrote: post #24

There have to be GovCloud only LLMs just for this case. I swear this government is headed by appointed nephews of appointed nephews. I keep thinking back about that Chernobyl miniseries; head of the science department used to run a shoe factory. No one needs to be competent at their job anymore

> There have to be GovCloud only LLMs just for this case. I hear Los Alamos labs has an LLM that makes ChatGPT look like a toy. And then there's Sentinel, which may be the same thing I'm not sure.

And we all heard they reverse engineered alien anti gravity technology in the 80s.

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

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Post by mythrwy »

lysace wrote: post #12

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.

That is one of the best comments I've seen on HN to date!

It seriously got me laughing. Thanks.

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

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Post by stackghost »

codezero wrote: post #90
Quarrelsome wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wait, so I can apply and be honest? Sick! I just poorly misassumed they had classicly archaic interpretations of drugs.

I don’t have a clearance so someone can correct me, I believe you still have to have not used drugs in the prior year.

>I don’t have a clearance so someone can correct me

Why would you give an answer when by your own statement, you're not knowledgeable? What a strange mindset.

>I believe you still have to have not used drugs in the prior year.

My own experience does not agree with this speculation.

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

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Post by malfist »

winddude wrote: post #9
JohnMakin wrote: post #5

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

this administrations competence on anything and everything has been a kid eating glue

One of them has bragged about how difficult it is to identify a giraffe, but that he's done it three times

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

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Post by _tk_ »

I’m a little surprised by the takes in the comments. Obviously, heads of departments or agencies, CEOs, or similar personnel are generally not in the same league as normal employees when it comes to compliance.

Productivity and efficiency are key for their work. I am sure there are lots of Sysadmins here, that had to disable security controls for a manager or had to configure something in a way to circumvent security controls from actually working. I have been in many situations where I have been asked by IT colleagues if doing something like that was fine, because an executive had to read a PowerPoint file NOW.

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

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Post by timmmmmmay »

BiscuitBadger wrote: post #24

There have to be GovCloud only LLMs just for this case. I swear this government is headed by appointed nephews of appointed nephews. I keep thinking back about that Chernobyl miniseries; head of the science department used to run a shoe factory. No one needs to be competent at their job anymore

there are, he was just too lazy to use them
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