US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report

(dexerto.com)

435 points by randycupertino8 days ago

12 comments

tomhow8 days ago
Comments moved to <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786672">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786672</a>.
nilstycho8 days ago
Better to read the original story from Politico.<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361" rel="nofollow">https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumuk...</a>
- HelloUsername8 days ago
 Which had no discussion <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786672">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786672</a>
 - nilstycho8 days ago
 O algorithm, algorithm! all men call thee fickle.
Havoc8 days ago
Well they’re about to solve that by intentionally cramming it into grok instead
- pstuart8 days ago
  DOGE already extracted their data of interest, but no doubt they're hungry for more.
  - rbanffy8 days ago
    There’s always a buyer for this kind of data. I’m sure there is a lot of activity in those markets.
ryu360i5 days ago
A textbook 'Authorization Gap': the special exemption granted entry, but failed to bound the user's intent. Identity verified at the gate is no longer a proxy for authorized behavior.
mlmonkey8 days ago
It looke like he's unfit for the position, and was using ChatGPT to burnish his reports etc.
- RegW8 days ago
  Hey dude. That's a thought. Get your AI to expand it into a full report and send it to my AI to summarize!
01284a7e8 days ago
"Information wants to be free". Government stooges help information with what it wants.
- direwolf208 days ago
  The second half of the quote: "but information also wants to be expensive"
wnevets8 days ago
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theyneverlear8 days ago
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mekdoonggi8 days ago
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zzzeek8 days ago
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- geodel8 days ago
 Do they have Middle Age Grandpas on MTV nowadays?
 - zzzeek8 days ago
 I guess you kids have no idea who the Secretary of Transportation is
 - hackyhacky8 days ago
 Sean Duffy was born in 1971. His oldest child is (or was) pregnant. He is literally a middle aged grandpa.
 - zzzeek8 days ago
 and i mentioned this being about the guys age exactly where
 hackyhacky8 days ago
 For reference, you responded to this post:> Do they have Middle Age Grandpas on MTV nowadays?with this:> I guess you kids have no idea who the Secretary of Transportation isIt seems to me that GP knows exactly who the Secretary of Transportation is. If you've got some clever hidden alternative interpretation of your comment, please share it with us.
 zzzeek7 days ago
 the secretary of transportation gained his fame and notoriety by being a star in an MTV reality show in the 1990s and that's why Trump likes him. Not because he got a law degree or used his dad's influence to become a prosecutor, there's millions of those.Get it? Trump picks wildly unqualified idiots from TV shows, just like him.
 - jimt12348 days ago
 Do kids know what MTV is?
 - pepperball8 days ago
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billy99k8 days ago
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- afavour8 days ago
 > Hillary Clinton used a randomly hosted email server to send out official government emails for months. The story was quickly buriedYou cannot be serious. That story arguably changed the course of the 2016 election. It was by absolutely no means “buried”.
 - throwaway858258 days ago
 Both can be true. Streisand effect.
 - afavour8 days ago
 Both could be true. But they aren’t. The story was never buried.
 - throwaway858258 days ago
 Sometimes it's almost random when stories hit national news. The somali daycare fraud has been reported on publicly for years but didn't go viral until recently.
 Sabinus8 days ago
 The Somali fraud that had already been detected and was being addressed, while the video author did very little research and expected to be shown children while randomly approaching childcare centres? That viral video?
 throwaway858257 days ago
 The fact that's it's been 10 years and still not shut down is evidence that it has not in fact been addressed.
- jimt12348 days ago
 Not sure if this is serious or satire.
 - gadders8 days ago
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 - ceejayoz8 days ago
 You think Clinton's email scandal "was quickly buried"?
 - ohyoutravel8 days ago
 It was so well covered that there was a whole meme about it that everyone can recite to this day.
 - gadders3 days ago
 She's not been prosecuted, so yeah.
 - ben_w8 days ago
 To add to your point: and if so, what were the "lock her up" chants about if not this?
 jimt12348 days ago
 But her emails?!
hareykrishna8 days ago
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- dmix8 days ago
 Sounds like he came on a student visa from India and got citizenship.
 - rbanffy8 days ago
 Citizenship can be revoked in cases that involve serious offences.
 - Jtsummers8 days ago
 It usually requires fraud in receiving the citizenship for it to be revoked. Once naturalized, if you commit a serious offense unrelated to the citizenship process itself, you'll keep your US citizenship.
 - direwolf208 days ago
 Or ICE shows up at a naturalization hearing.
 - selimthegrim8 days ago
 Don't hold your breath, Miller is big on denaturalization these days.
 Jtsummers8 days ago
 But he hasn't done anything yet, he just wants to. There's no legal standing for it at this point beyond what I said. Every case I've been able to find was tied to fraud associated with the naturalization process (either the process itself, or false statements given during the process).
 rbanffy7 days ago
 Lack of legal standing is not something that has ever stopped this administration from doing something it has decided to do. Best case scenario is Miller gets thrown under the bus after the goal is accomplished.