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godsstigma · 04-27-2009, 03:33 AM

Hello everyone,

I am a hobbyist coder and am writing an app for basic communications over the web. It consists of a program that listens on a port for a info and a program to send a very particular string.

Now the program that listens only reacts when it receives this certain string but it is constantly listening on a certain TCP port.

I know virtually nothing about networking.

How big of a security threat is this?

As it is just for a learning experience I can provide the source if requested.

Thanks – John-Paul

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godsstigma Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP SP3\|Kubuntu 8.04	Constantly listening on a port - Security issue? Hello everyone, I am a hobbyist coder and am writing an app for basic communications over the web. It consists of a program that listens on a port for a info and a program to send a very particular string. Now the program that listens only reacts when it receives this certain string but it is constantly listening on a certain TCP port. I know virtually nothing about networking. How big of a security threat is this? As it is just for a learning experience I can provide the source if requested. Thanks – John-Paul