Milestone 3A - Sammy Paykel

[spaykel]

Developer: Sammy Paykel

Closes #110

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Completed Milestone 3A. If there are any issues or comments for my code, please let me know!

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⚠️ GitGuardian has uncovered 3 secrets following the scan of your pull request.

Please consider investigating the findings and remediating the incidents. Failure to do so may lead to compromising the associated services or software components.

🔎 Detected hardcoded secrets in your pull request

GitGuardian id	Secret	Commit	Filename
-	MongoDB Credentials	57d25f9	milestone3b/.env	View secret
-	MongoDB Credentials	7b712ba	milestone3a/.env	View secret
-	MongoDB Credentials	57d25f9	milestone2/.env	View secret

🛠 Guidelines to remediate hardcoded secrets

1. Understand the implications of revoking this secret by investigating where it is used in your code.
2. Replace and store your secrets safely. Learn here the best practices.
3. Revoke and rotate these secrets.
4. If possible, rewrite git history. Rewriting git history is not a trivial act. You might completely break other contributing developers' workflow and you risk accidentally deleting legitimate data.

To avoid such incidents in the future consider

• following these best practices for managing and storing secrets including API keys and other credentials
• install secret detection on pre-commit to catch secret before it leaves your machine and ease remediation.

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