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David Seidl

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VP for Information Technology and CIO at
Miami University, best selling cybersecurity certification author, geek and maker, lover of terrible puns and hands-on history, frequent landing spot for shoulder cats. Yes, I wore medieval armor to a datacenter photoshoot. (he/him/his)

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Joined October 31, 2022

Miami:

https://www.miamioh.edu/it-services/about/office-of-vp-cio/index.html

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidseidl/

My books on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/David-Seidl/author/B001HORX1W

Writing motivation:

https://miamioh.edu/news/2023/04/miami-universitys-prolific-cybersecurity-writer-has-a-suit-of-armor-after-20-books.html

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David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2026

Replying to @drsbaitso@infosec.exchange

@drsbaitso@infosec.exchange and I though my GI doctor and German academic were bad for my inbox!

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · Jul 21, 2026

Replying to @ryanc@infosec.exchange

@ryanc@infosec.exchange Dear tiny little IoT devices... Long ago when I was working at Purdue there was a device somewhere in the datacenter - you could terminal in, you could ping it, but nobody could find it. Quite a bit of tracking it down later, a Sparc IPX was found UNDER the floor, in a pile of cables. But this one still takes the cake: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2001/04/12/missing-novell-server-discovered-after-four-years/1321919

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @mbpaz@mas.to

@mbpaz@mas.to @flexion@oldbytes.space I'll admit I didn't do as much with Sun gear at that scale. I ran into a lot of Sparcstations and IPCs/IPXes, but didn't get to the bigger stuff from them until later in my career - and then it was all rackmount datacenter stuff. The research computing datacenter folks I know will deny to this day that they almost toppled an entire rack of heavy gear by unloading it in the wrong order!

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @flexion@oldbytes.space

@flexion@oldbytes.space I worked for a video production company, so we ran a lot of Discreet Logic's Flame/Smoke/Fire workstations - so Octanes and Indigo 2's (and I think I recall a Tezro by the end - we were switching to Windows boxes for a lot of things by then). My own collection has an O2, which is still dense but at least it's not too bad to move around!

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @flexion@oldbytes.space

@flexion@oldbytes.space Now I'm debating which old iron was the most painful to move back when I supported a fleet of SGI boxes at one job and a bunch of DEC and other gear at another. Memory says that the SGI gear was denser (and heavier) than the Windows and Macs for sure!

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea Much to my chagrin, I share a first and last name with a GI doctor. SO MUCH medical recruiting spam, with some insane numbers for take home if I'm willing to do 12+ surgeries a day. I'm down to wishing for persistently annoying misfortune to strike the data brokers who have merged my contact information with his data, because it's a losing fight doing anything else like opting out and chasing down individual brokers as I find them doing so.

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · Apr 01, 2026

This is a bit different from my typical posts - it's directly work related, and it's a job post.

But it's also exciting. Miami University is hiring the inaugural director for the Ohio Quantum Computing Institute.

https://miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamioh-faculty/job/Director--Ohio-Quantum-Computing-Institute_JR103868.

There's a lot going on at Miami - and in Ohio around quantum, and the Institute is intended to grow Ohio's quantum workforce.

https://www.ohiotechnews.com/miami-university-investment-quantum-computing-workforce/

I'd appreciate folks sharing this with quantum oriented higher education folks who might be interested!

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · Nov 20, 2025

I've been playing with Google's Antigravity AI IDE, and have enjoyed it. But it also led to me typing a line that really struck me: "I wonder if I can vibe code a BBS-style door game as a Slackbot".

I think I can, and 1990's me is pretty tickled about the idea.

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · Mar 12, 2024

Replying to @jwgoerlich@infosec.exchange

@jwgoerlich @wendynather The more ludicrous the sponsorship, the better. "This talk on Zero Trust brought to you by Coke Zero. Look, at least it has Zero something, right?"

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · Mar 12, 2024

Replying to @jwgoerlich@infosec.exchange

@jwgoerlich I was picturing the reaction from @wendynather when you interrupt your next conversation 2-3 minutes in with a short commercial break. 😆

David Seidl @davidseidl@mstdn.social · Mar 12, 2024

Replying to @maxleibman@mastodon.social

@maxleibman @jwgoerlich might want to adopt this model.

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