Why We Vote Ep. 175: Col. Shawn Smith and Clay Parikh

Badlands Media · May 27, 2026 · 1h 31m

CannCon and Ashe in America bring on cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh and retired Col. Shawn Smith to break down the CISA GitHub credential leak, in which AWS GovCloud server access keys and workspace passwords were stored in plain text in a CSV file and left exposed for up to six months. Col. Smith explains why CISA has never had the cyber talent or leadership to secure critical infrastructure, and why the damage from a breach like this is almost certainly unknowable and irreversible without burning the systems entirely. Clay Parikh walks through how credential exposure at the cloud level…