diff --git a/docs/en/topics/configuration.md b/docs/en/topics/configuration.md
index 07124b717..ac27ec89d 100644
--- a/docs/en/topics/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/en/topics/configuration.md
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ incomplete - please add to it** *Try to keep it in alphabetical order too! :)*
  | ----    |                                                            | ----------- |                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  | Authenticator::register_authenticator($authenticator);|              | Enable an authentication method (for more details see [security](/topics/security)). |        
  | Authenticator::set_default_authenticator($authenticator); |          | Modify tab-order on login-form.|        
- | BasicAuth::disable() |                                               | Disable basic authentication checking for dev sites (useful when testing credit card transaction post-backs etc) |                                                             
  | BBCodeParser::disable_autolink_urls(); |                             | Disables plain hyperlinks from being turned into links when bbcode is parsed. |     
  | BlogEntry::allow_wysiwyg_editing();  |                               | Enable rich text editing for blog posts.  |                                                                                  
  | ContentNegotiator::set_encoding(string $encoding)  |					| The encoding charset to use - UTF-8 by default  |        
diff --git a/security/BasicAuth.php b/security/BasicAuth.php
index 6c94c5390..2bad329f0 100644
--- a/security/BasicAuth.php
+++ b/security/BasicAuth.php
@@ -114,22 +114,6 @@ class BasicAuth {
 		if($message) self::$entire_site_protected_message = $message;
 	}
 	
-	/**
-	 * @deprecated Use BasicAuth::protect_entire_site() instead.
-	 */
-	static function enable() {
-		Deprecation::notice('2.4', 'Use BasicAuth::protect_entire_site() instead.');
-		return self::protect_entire_site();
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * @deprecated Use BasicAuth::protect_entire_site(false) instead.
-	 */
-	static function disable() {
-		Deprecation::notice('2.4', 'Use BasicAuth::protect_entire_site(false) instead.');
-		return self::protect_entire_site(false);
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Call {@link BasicAuth::requireLogin()} if {@link BasicAuth::protect_entire_site()} has been called.
 	 * This is a helper function used by {@link Controller::init()}.