Peter Fuller wrote:
> 
> I'm studying wireshark and hope to contribute to the project, but not
> sure where yet.  Still learning some
> of the guts....   probably will be for awhile.    I was readin the
> roadmap for Beyond 1.0 and saw"
> 
> * Add privilege separation for dissection.
> 
>    What does this mean exactly?

It means splitting libwireshark off into a separate executable and running it as
a non-privileged user, possibly chrooted. More information can be found at
http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/PrivilegeSeparation
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