Why does tor need administrative access to start?

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Published on 2010-05-14T03:50:05Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 3:55 UTC
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Why does tor require administrative access to start, if it binds to a port higher than 1024?

On both linux and windows, administrative access is required.

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