today's howtos
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Easily use your remote scanner on Linux (Qubes OS guide)
Hi, this is a quick guide explaining how to use a network scanner on Qubes OS (or Linux/BSD in general).
I'll be using a network printer / scanner Brother MFC-1910W in the example.
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My home IPv6 network plans
Our ISP began offering IPv6 earlier this year. Rather than a single public IPv4 address, we’ve now been delegated a /48, from which our router can DHCPv6 addresses to every Internet-connected interface in our local domain.
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Privacy and networking: Part 8 — IPv6 addresses and privacy
One of the biggest advantages of IPv6, from a network administration perspective, is the ease of renumbering. While IPv4 networks can be renumbered using DHCP, the process of changing the address of every device on a network is always fraught with unexpected challenges. People (like me) have a habit of manually assigning printers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices a fixed address so they will be easy to find and use.
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Two views of security and vulnerability scanners
In my entry on how web server should refuse requests for random URLs, I mentioned that we have an open source security and vulnerability scanner. Among the reactions I saw to that entry was people who felt that such scanners are basically a bad idea, and in thinking about the issue I've decided that I can see two views of such scanners.