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How would you expose Jellyfin securely without a vpn?
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What's your concern about running it behind a reverse proxy, like caddy or nginx?
I don't consider Jellyfin a fully secure and audited application to host, unsecured endpoints come to mind, that and the less exposed to the whole internet the better.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/13987
Things like these scare me:
https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/notice-of-recent-security-incident
https://www.androidpolice.com/lastpass-breach-plex-update/