this whole 'privledged ports' nonsense is left over from a time where some process on another machine running on a low port was somehow to be trusted - because

this whole 'privledged ports' nonsense is left over from a time where some process on another machine running on a low port was somehow to be trusted - because the person running that process was another administrator, and you can generally trust those guys (as opposed to unwashed users). that world didn't last very long, and I wish we could vent some of these designs that didn't pass the test of time.