Veronica Explains on Nostr: "safer" is relative to the threat, of course. In my typical case, OpenVPN is handled ...

"safer" is relative to the threat, of course.

In my typical case, OpenVPN is handled itself by my firewall appliance. While it opens a port it also knows what bad traffic to scan for, without me telling it what to do. Again, I'm not a security researcher, but I tend to trust pfSense/OPNsense/etc more than myself when it comes to opening a port and watching for baddies.

And nowadays I don't even do that, because I just don't need it badly enough anymore.