Making /var/log/messages readable

[Forrest Sedgwick]

Hello everyone, I have a security question.  I was wondering what the 
risks are in making /var/log/messages readable by everyone.  I am often 
checking this log and right now I need to su every time to do it.  I 
have not modified syslog.conf in anyway, so the entry for messages still 
reads:

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                /var/log/messages

This is on my laptop, which is not used as any time of server or 
anything.  But since I'm a newbie I thought it would be a good idea to 
check before changing around these types of security settings...

Thanks,
-Forrest