27/08/2026
Your website is at its safest the day before it goes live.
That is the last day every mistake in it still belongs to you.
In 2025 there were 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets committed to public GitHub. And 64 percent of the secrets confirmed live in 2022 were still working this January. Nobody rotated them.
We wrote up what a proper prelaunch audit actually checks. Six areas, a severity gate that decides whether you launch, and a version you can run yourself in five days.
Link in the first comment.
