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    Anyone can use any source port of their choice. The first 0-1024 reserved port are reserved, but nothing preventing them from making conscious decision to set the source port as 443.
    – Darius
    Commented Feb 3, 2014 at 22:20
  • Why would anybody do this though? Commented Feb 3, 2014 at 22:21
  • Isn't Port 443 the HTTPS port?
    – dotVezz
    Commented Feb 3, 2014 at 22:22
  • @dotVezz indeed, which is why it is so surprising that this port is the source (rather than the destination) port. Commented Feb 4, 2014 at 0:12
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    I'm seeing this a lot coming from Google IP addresses.
    – Michael
    Commented May 27, 2016 at 20:14