Please stop hard-wiring AWS credentials in your code. Looking at you, uni COVID-19 track-and-test app makers

Please stop hard-wiring AWS credentials in your code. Looking at you, uni COVID-19 track-and-test app makers

Albion College has a plan for students to return safely to campus this fall amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. It involves being tracked by an app that, at least until a few days ago, appears to have been insecure.


The Michigan institution announced its plan on July 28, which calls for testing coordinated by Testing Centers of America and the use of a health monitoring app called Aura Sequential Testing.


"All students will utilize Aura, an app developed by Nucleus Healthcare, that organizes the College’s COVID-19 testing and public health approach," Albion said in a statement. "The app will ask for daily health self-monitoring inputs prior to campus arrival in August and will offer daily reminders about common public he ..

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