Ted Gould
Talking about how on Linux only root can bind to the lower port numbers.
Remembering a time when that was actually a useful security feature. Because, nobody who is untrusted would actually have *root* on a Unix machine. Then everyone can trust all the lower ports.
Such an innocent time.
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