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Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT
Submitted 2 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361
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teft@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Only the best most qualified people in this administration.
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
AI will reach true intelligence when it is able to tell its users they probably shouldn’t be providing them that information.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t tell you how many times I emailed someone last week asking that they don’t send me any sensitive information over insecure channels.
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
ChatGPT, how do I erase this evidence that Trump had Epstein murdered? Here are all the unredacted files for review.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The government is run by incompetent but power hungry cretens who have been convinced by the techbros that LLMs can make them competent at wielding power.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Cretins
unconsequential@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Failed polygraphs, administrative leaves and blocking CIOs. Chaos. Pure chaos.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Lock him up
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The kakkiest of kakistocracies.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
matlag@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah but Sam Altman is a pal, so don’t worry: nothing bad actually happening!
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
If the United States government wants to use ChatGPT on sensitive information, I’m pretty sure that it can come to some kind of contract with OpenAI to set up their own private cloud thing dedicated to that.
I get that maybe this guy just wanted some kind of one-off use, but then arrange to have something set up for that.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They can. They probably do. But he wanted to use the online one specifically and got an exemption. And of course he fucked it up. This is why management should be the last people to be granted extra access.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Can confirm that they already do.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Perhaps he shouldn’t have internet access.
lando55@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, he really should know better, but why were the necessary controls not in place to prevent the C-suite from doing stupid things? I know it’s not possible to eliminate all risk, but enterprise-level DLP should really have caught this.
giantripdrop@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
He was assured “we are currently clean on OPSEC” by chat
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
This is the same guy who failed a polygraph, then smeared the people who told him he only needed to take the polygraph when he wants to see a highly classified program where only a limited number of people are allowed to see it (the previous guy on his seat didn’t want to see it because it’s not necessary for this job) for “giving him misleading information”.
He also wanted to remove Costello, one of the people at CISA who is seen “as one of the agency’s top remaining technical talent” after around 1000 employees were cut (he was hindered to do so after others learned about that - Costello had already gotten a letter giving him the choice to move to DHS or resign). Sources say that Costello pushes back regarding policy and contracting decisions - probably because he knows better.
He is Noem’s pet IT guy she took with her from South Dakota, and i think he’s out of his depth for sure, and probably compromised.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In his defense, polygraph is just pseudo-science bullshit. You “fail” or “pass” depending on what the one doing it wants you to do. It is just made up.
scytale@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
They were, or at least detected if not prevented. That’s how they knew it happened.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Apparently it was set to detect and not block