A lot of the early video game cheat codes were really just testing interfaces -- turn on god mode so you could quickly get to that part of the map that was twea

A lot of the early video game cheat codes were really just testing interfaces -- turn on god mode so you could quickly get to that part of the map that was tweaked in the latest build, etc. There was clearly nothing honest in this scandal, but I'm sure a Bosch engineer can make an honest case that many of these flags are testing and debugging modes that need to be present to fully integrate the product into the engineering and QA pipeline. I've certainly shipped product that has some hidden modes and features used just for my testing and healthcheck infrastructure.