No, wait, uuhhh… Ive heard that all ports above 1024 are safe since they e only dynamic??
No. Really. You CANNOT tell what ports are safe simply by looking at its number, simply because that is really all it is. A number. You can’t mount an attack through a 16-bit number. The security of a “port” depends on what application you’ll reach through that port. A common misconception is that ports 25 (SMTP) and 80 (HTTP) are safe to pass through a firewall. *meep* WRONG. Just because everyone is doing it doesn’t mean that it is safe. Again, the security of a port depends on what application you’ll reach through that port. If you’re running a well-written web server, that is designed from the ground up to be secure, you can probably feel reasonably assured that it’s safe to let outside people access it through port 80. Otherwise, you CAN’T. The problem here is not in the network layer. It’s in how the application processes the data that it receives. This data may be received through port 80, port 666, a serial line, floppy or through singing telegram. If the application is not s
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