They removed a feature. Somebody coded this in, code has been reviewed, managers approved the time spent on this, meetings held, etc. There is a git commit (o

They removed a feature. Somebody coded this in, code has been reviewed, managers approved the time spent on this, meetings held, etc. There is a git commit (or CVS, who knows) with the name and a ticket number. Right now there are probably urgent meetings being held between the interested parties to re-introduce a similar access feature back to the code base, using maybe a password derived from an ip address or serial number.