On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:42:17PM -0800, Ned Freed <ned.freed@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf