On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 6:03:55, david vargas (nny) wrote:

so i recommend using a port above 1024... not like its difficult to say
which port to use, but might as well mention it at the start...

It's not hard to drop root privileges right after the port has been bound,
and if you're really paranoid, you could always run the server in chroot
jail.