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Unfortunately it’s not so shocking anymore. The Secretary of Defense texting imminent war plans to a journalist in a Signal group kinda jumped the shark.
Secretary of War
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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.
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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.
It's a person reliability test and he failed it.
In old days ppl was saying: "I have no secrets" and now we evolved into "I know how to not upload important docs" ;)
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"The report says Gottumukkala requested a special exemption to access ChatGPT, which is blocked for other Department of Homeland Security staff."
That they got this is shocking in itself.
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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.
A polygraph isn't a competency test. It's a person reliability test and he failed it.
It does not have the capability to say whether the person is reliable. It is a bunch of pseudoscience, basically.
Once again, if you or I did this, it's federal crime and federal time. But when the chief does it, it's an oopsie poopsie "special exemption".
> Once again, if you or I did this, it's federal crime and federal time.
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Surely that must have been approved by the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, his former boss back in SD.
Every cause that led to this event is, in itself, quite shocking. I feel for my American friends, and hope they never again optimise their government for comedy value.
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> Madhu Gottumukkala was born in Andhra Pradesh, India
How is such a critical position filled with a foreign national?