Are there any security issues leaving the PDB debug files on the live servers?

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Published on 2009-06-01T07:43:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 0:33 UTC
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Are there any security issues keeping the .NET PDB files on the real server?

I know that throwing exceptions might take a bit longer , but who throws exceptions during normal execution anyway? :-)

But from a security perspective? any issues?

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