I was under the gun for some client facing deadline and I had a crash so I had to rebuild my system. We had registration for our software and nobody was around

I was under the gun for some client facing deadline and I had a crash so I had to rebuild my system. We had registration for our software and nobody was around to give me a key, so I commented out the authentication and call home (not normally in my part of the source tree) then promptly finished my work and committed the whole thing... got caught at the last round of QA fortunately.