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Outbound firewall rules almost never limit the source port, 99.99% of them only limit the destination port. If party A can accept packets on port 80 then almost any client out there can connect to the service on that port. The point being made is that a lot of default firewall rules allow traffic to any port 80 destination and accept traffic from any source to the local port 80.



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