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Apps that open arbritrary UDP/TCP ports? Isn't that something the app store policies should reject?
by silverwind 1y ago
Apps that open arbritrary UDP/TCP ports? Isn't that something the app store policies should reject?
- epcoa 1y agoWhat is an arbitrary TCP port? Ports in isolation from an IP address aren't inherently arbitrary, they're nothing, and the IP:port pair is arbitrary. Once you allow connections to any host on the internet the port doesn't really matter - you can do whatever nefarious shit over port 80. And not allowing apps to connect to external internet servers seems pretty limiting.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoThey're not opening listening ports on the local system, they're just ignoring the system's DNS and saying "Take me to this IP and this port" and then doing a DNS lookup themselves