Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Priv sep in ethereal

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 09:53:05 +0100
Stephen Samuel (leave the email alone) wrote:


I realize that the code may not be all that big, but when
deciding policies, my backup thought is 'what would happen if
*everybody* did this?"  Besides, if it adds capabilities for
non-priveledged processes, some people might consider this to
be a security issue.


That's the important point IMHO.
An administrator might not want users to capture from the network (for whatever reason), so it should not enable this feature "accidentially" as a default option. 

Regards, ULFL