Comment by lumberjack24

Here's a checklist [1] (again, from gitguardian) of steps to follow before open-sourcing projects and [2] a guide on how to remediate hardcoded/exposed secrets.

[1] https://blog.gitguardian.com/safely-open-source-software-bes... [2] https://blog.gitguardian.com/leaking-secrets-on-github-what-...