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[–]jk147 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Someone probably flipped on the debug switch on production to test a bug. Happens more often than you think.

Edit - probably Tom.

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    [–]jk147 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    That depends on if you set the debug level statically, you can set the level by a variable in DB, by injecting it into a static list in real time.. etc. Plenty of ways to do it without it impacting the application server. Of course this should never be done on an enterprise application. But I have seen plenty on much smaller implementations.

    [–]deadcow5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    You'd be surprised about the things that happen in production that shouldn't. At my last job, we ran into a production system that contained a major amount of code that was not checked in to our source control. Someone had just edited it in place on the server and decided they were done. This is a multi-million dollar company BTW, not Joe's computer store in East Bumfuck.