Oh, I get it, trust me! Professional paranoia is a skill that's served me very well over the years! Especially with AI-driven attacks now: we might be little fish, but it's cheaper and easier to catch little fish than it ever has been.

But there's still a calculated risk. To get into this, someone would have to compromise the VPN, then compromise the firewall, then compromise the reasonably-hardened servers running behind it. Sure, those things might be possible. Even with AI, though, is it likely? I don't think it is.

"A ship in port is safe. But that’s not what ships were built for." - Grace Hopper