Those are most like the port in which the hacker used. See this page:
http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=38+24+8888+hacker+port&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&u=www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html&w=38+24+8888+hacker+port&d=CAE69B035D&icp=1&.intl=us
Also not that this helps you any but makes for good reading:
The internet is a child of Ares, the war's god. It was created in 1969
by the US Department of Defense as part of its "Advanced Research
Program Agency" (ARPA). But this is just one story about defense
networks. Homer tells a not less passionate one (Od. 8, 267 ff.).
Hephaistos, the god of fire and technology and Aphrodite's husband,
was informed by Helios about the liaison of his wife with Ares. He
then built an invisible net, like a spider's web, by which Ares and
Aphrodite, caught in burning love, were kept together until all male
gods could bear testimony to the situation -- with an incessant
laughter. But, hélàs, Aphrodite gave birth to Eros. According to Plato
(Symp. 203b), Eros was in fact the son of Poros, a personification of
purchasing and wealth, and Penia, a personification of poverty, who
conceived him during a festivity in honour of Aphrodite.
Some of Hephaistos' successors, today's hackers, seem to be no less
passionate in the art of building invisible networks by which not war
or merchant's spirit but universal free and peaceful life should be
the outcome. In the following I will first refer to Pekka Himanen
analysis of the hacker's passions that gave rise to the internet. In
the second part I will describe how the internet became the ambiguous
place of a cyber-mythology. |