Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> added the comment:

While the actual code may be accessible to everyone, the server configuration 
(paths etc. -- just look at the page; at least the session secret key and 
passwords are masked by Django) are not, and exposing that can be a security 
problem as well.  And while I agree that this possibility appears remote, just 
look at the current discussion about hashing attacks.  Running in debug mode 
also simply looks bad to just about every web programmer, which explains this 
bug report.
Lastly, setting DEBUG to true also has other consequences, like the possibility 
to "leak" memory for long-running processes, as explained here: 
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/faq/models/

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