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

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Post by Jach »

jabroni_salad wrote: post #133
lm28469 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

These days I think that thing's main purpose is to bounce people who would otherwise request access that they don't really need. If it isn't worth sitting down for the machine you don't really need it.

> Gottumukkala failed the polygraph in the final weeks of July. The Department of Homeland Security began investigating the circumstances surrounding the polygraph test the following month and suspended six career staffers, telling them that the polygraph did not need to be administered.

This is pretty insane though.

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Post by fooker »

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

It's all part of the plan.

Make the government look so incompetent that it is a no brainer to let a private company (headed by your friends and family of course) to do the important jobs and siphon resources much more effectively.

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Post by 0xy »

zzrrt wrote: post #108
0xy wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

> CCP compromised the law enforcement portal for every American ISP Isn’t that the fault of the ISPs, not the admin?

Nope. The breach was in law enforcement operated portals.

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Post by 0xy »

Daishiman wrote: post #115
0xy wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

You're the one making a political argument by doing a whataboutism that attempts to negate the failings of this administration. Which you're not even doing correctly because by every measure the previous administration was drastically more competent by looking at the qualifications of the people who filled their posts.

Can you explain how leaking the phone metadata of 80% of Americans and compromising the integrity of the 2024 election campaign's private comms is better OpSec than a single leak?

It's the worst U.S. government leak of all time, by far.

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Post by pixl97 »

direwolf20 wrote: post #125
pixl97 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite often it is both. It's not uncommon for incompetent people to be put in positions of power. Because they are incompetent, competent but malicious people take advantage of this and commit actual crimes. This is where actual conspiracies show up. And that is the incompetent powerful people cover up said crime to avoid looking incompetent. It is an extremely common pattern.

When Donald Trump saw the footage of the murder of Renee Good, he said "Oh". He didn't know what ICE were doing until then. He trusted his cabinet who were telling him they were getting illegal immigrants and left wing terrorists.

No, he did not trust his cabinet at all, which is why he put a bunch of yes men in place to ensure they fucked up and did the dumbest thing.

DT has had a long history of operating like a mafia boss where the design of the people he chooses around him is to put scapegoats on when the criminal activities he's involved in is caught.

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Post by 6stringmerc »

JohnMakin wrote: post #5

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

When I saw mention it was in context of a “contracting” type set of info / document I actually chuckled - I spent a decade in procurement and sales for high stakes contracts. Incompetent person has no idea how to manage a procurement and goes online. Basically this is a 2026 version of an inept executive bashing “what is an RFP” into a search engine from 2007.

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Post by Insanity »

Smar wrote: post #139
Insanity wrote: post #6

People were already careless with social media which was openly public. I imagine it’ll be worse with these LLMs for the average person.

This is the real risk I think. Currently there are no means to even pretend to get anything deleted from LLMs either.

Yeah and ultimately those tools will be used as advertising machines. You'll get hyper specific targeted ads.

I'm pretty pessimistic about the future with LLMs, but I can't see it being a net positive for humanity in the long run.

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

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Post by tw04 »

I for one, after doing a bit of reserach, was shocked to find out the person in question is apparently completely unqualified for the job (if him pasting sensitive information into public ChatGPT didn't already make that abundantly clear). But the highlight from his Wikipedia page is this one:

>In December 2025, Politico reported that Gottumukkala had requested to see access to a controlled access program—an act that would require taking a polygraph—in June. Gottumukkala failed the polygraph in the final weeks of July. The Department of Homeland Security began investigating the circumstances surrounding the polygraph test the following month and suspended six career staffers, telling them that the polygraph did not need to be administered.[12]

So the guy failed a polygraph to access a highly controlled system full of confidential information, and the solution to that problem was to fire the people in charge of ensuring the system was secure.

We're speed running America into the ground and half the country is willfully ignorant to it happening.

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Post by TheSkyHasEyes »

tw04 wrote: post #148

I for one, after doing a bit of reserach, was shocked to find out the person in question is apparently completely unqualified for the job (if him pasting sensitive information into public ChatGPT didn't already make that abundantly clear). But the highlight from his Wikipedia page is this one: >In December 2025, Politico reported that Gottumukkala had requested to see access to a controlled access program—an act that…

Not defending the buy but completely might be inaccurate. He has a masters in comp sci eng. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu_Gottumukkala

I do realize this scholastic achievement is not indication he knows what he is doing.

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Post by shermantanktop »

XorNot wrote: post #136
jermaustin1 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, I want to believe that this is all a ruse and that the are smart and just really good at playing dumb, but there are just too MANY of them. It's sycophancy plain and simple. Surround yourself with only yes-men, it ends up becoming less and less competent as the ones who stand up and say no are replaced. Even if they know better, they can't do better because they know there is no loyalty to nay-sayers.

The main thing is that if you're a big enough entity, in favorable enough conditions, it's possible to make stupid decisions continuously and survive them for a very long time. It's the "market can remain irrational..." problem.

And as a consequence, never recognize them as being stupid---in fact the reverse, because your bad ideas are met with macro success even while individually they may struggle.

It's yet another broken feedback loop.

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