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Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-20 04:09:38
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:42:17PM -0800,
 Ned Freed <ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com> wrote 
 a message of 35 lines which said:

The privileged port concept has some marginal utility on multiuser
systems where you don't Joe-random-user to grab some port for a well
known service.

"had", not "has". The concept was invented at a time where multi-users
machines were rare and expensive monsters. So, a request coming from
source port 513 probably was "serious". Today, any highschool student
is root on his PC and therefore this protection is almost useless.



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