Or maybe more plausibly, they do have export code in there for any number of reasons including debugging, and they left it in there and are triggering it by acc

Or maybe more plausibly, they do have export code in there for any number of reasons including debugging, and they left it in there and are triggering it by accident. GP is likely just suggesting that it's quite amazing that a single little bug can do all of these steps as opposed to intentional code executed unintentionally.