bing in Debian
+------------+

Previous versions of bing were installed setuid root. However, as the
program never actually drops superuser privileges and as such may be
abused by ordinary users, and because bandwidth measurement is usually
only done by the superuser, the setuid bit has been removed in version
1.0.4-5.3.

If, by any chance, you wish to get the old state back (that's not quite
recommended on multi-user systems), just run `chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/bing`
as root.

 -- Josip Rodin,  Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:00:11 +0100