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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 pm90 »

TheSkyHasEyes wrote: post #149
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.

And an MBA. He seems like a lot of people I know who skim through their technical degrees just to get the credentials. And my experience is that Masters is often easier to get than a Bachelors.

Anyway what he did makes it abundantly clear that this person should not be head of security for anything.

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

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Post by chrisweekly »

Insanity wrote: post #147
Smar wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"pessimistic... but can't see it being positive"

why "but"?

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

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Post by ProAm »

danso wrote: post #2

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...

Isn't their internal chat bots provided by grok or Oracle AI?

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

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Post by Terr_ »

kube-system wrote: post #104
Kapura wrote: post #95

the current united states government is staffed mostly with unserious people, or people who are serious about doing crimes against humanity. there's very little in between.

The vast majority of government staff are career professionals who know what they are doing, not political appointees who showed up in the past year.

Right, if we change parent-poster's "staffed mostly with" to "controlled mostly by", I think that's an adequate fix.

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

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Post by Terr_ »

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…

More context is that he was promoted under Noem in her old job too, just before the Presidential election.

> On Tuesday, Gov. Kristi Noem announced Gottumukkala's appointment as CIO. In a statement, she said he will prioritize the state’s citizens, their data and government service delivery.

https://www.govtech.com/workforce/south-dakota-governor-appo...

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Post by wafflemaker »

heliumtera wrote: post #94
stronglikedan wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

All I've heard was that they were aware it's anti gravity. Nothing about reverse engineering.

Care to say more about that?

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

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…

They aren't willfully ignorant, they're cheering it on.

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

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Post by gnarbarian »

ProAm wrote: post #195
danso wrote: post #2

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...

Isn't their internal chat bots provided by grok or Oracle AI?

dot is self hosting several openai and Claude models on chat.dot.gov it's awesome
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