Similar arguments can be brought up against allowing a user to capture network traffic. So arguing against it - at least if there were a fine- grained option in the kernel - is not convincing, especially if it is disabled by default as the network privilege is ATM. And if there were such a capability then it would be obviously safer and better to run wireshark as non-root if you have to capture USB packets, which isn't too uncommon for hardware developers (I am in that situation right now ;). Hence this is *not* an opinion but a bug (not only in wireshark, but also/mainly in the kernel). Did anybody know what the kernel guys think about adding a finer-grained capability for this? I won't reopen the bug for now mainly because it does not make sense, if the Debian (and an Ubuntu) maintainer just not agrees with the above :) I encourage you to do so and add the kernel though.
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