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by throwaway74829 1342 days ago
Permissions is the big one.

Second is potential for DDoS (either intentionally or unintentionally).

Third is possibility of "oopsies" via me intentionally or unintentionally including my passwords/sensitive info/what have you in the POST body. Now you have to add branch to look for and scrub sensitive info in your logger -- otherwise my PII has now been logged (and if I were a massive asshole looking for a quick payday, I could throw up a fuss).

It's fine in dev, but shouldn't be in prod. Too much liability.