Quoting Matthew S. Hallacy (poptix at techmonkeys.org):
> Nothing has ever been, or ever will be setuid in the kismet distribution:
> 
> [root at tranq bin]# ls -l kismet*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2028 Sep 18 08:04 kismet
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       540476 Sep 18 08:04 kismet_curses
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        46604 Sep 18 08:04 kismet_hopper
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5168 Sep 18 08:04 kismet_monitor
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       387864 Sep 18 08:04 kismet_server
   ^^^^
   ^^^^

YOURS -is- setuid root. 

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