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I'm less worried about attack than barriers to sharing.
If you set up port forwarding for file shares you must keep setting it up again for every new service.
If you set up a VPN once then you're simply done. Every new service you set up is available directly.
No middleman pls.
ZeroTier can be a fully self hosted VPN. You set up a server locally, port forward only the VPN service, and then everything else you run is accessible through it for the people you give access to.
Who knows what else it does with that secret code.
They're are multiple open source options like n2n