diff --git a/src/as/com/threerings/io/ObjectInputStream.as b/src/as/com/threerings/io/ObjectInputStream.as
index 9ca7b3314..ad9b26f5c 100644
--- a/src/as/com/threerings/io/ObjectInputStream.as
+++ b/src/as/com/threerings/io/ObjectInputStream.as
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import com.threerings.util.Long;
 public class ObjectInputStream
 {
     /** Enables verbose object I/O debugging. */
-    public static const DEBUG :Boolean = true;
+    public static const DEBUG :Boolean = false;
 
     public function ObjectInputStream (source :IDataInput = null, clientProps :Object = null)
     {
diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/net/AuthRequest.java b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/net/AuthRequest.java
index 4c549126d..86f508335 100644
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/presents/net/AuthRequest.java
+++ b/src/java/com/threerings/presents/net/AuthRequest.java
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ public class AuthRequest extends UpstreamMessage
             // if we fail here because the client is old, leave ourselves with a partially
             // initialized set of credentials, which the server will generally cope with by telling
             // the client it is out of date
-            ioe.printStackTrace();
         }
     }