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Do you know of any potential security risks that could arise from running a local handle service, and opening ports 8000 and 2641 to all incoming and outgoing requests?

April 26, 2017arise local opening ports potential running security service

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Do you know of any potential security risks that could arise from running a local handle service, and opening ports 8000 and 2641 to all incoming and outgoing requests?

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We believe no security risks could be introduced, because handle servers provide a limited handle lookup and administration service that is constrained to the handle database. There have been no vulnerabilities found or security-related bugs reported in the software in over 8 years.