As others in “the biz” have pointed out, it IS complicated. Down at Sandia Labs (yes the home of fat man and little boy) security teams are constantly grappling with citizens who think “ it will be fine” but its not.
Consider the how “everything has to be connected” . Consider that tiny usb drives are cleverly disguised as pens. Now remember that contrary to public opinion, secure facilities are exempt from ADA, lawsuits, and damn near everything, by act of congress. You dont like it? Go ahead and TRY to sue. You cannot sue the Fed. By law. You demand accomodation from the employer ( ie, TRW, Northrupp, blah blah) you will find that your “accommodation” is either pushing a parts cart until you decide to quit, or getting terminated because YOU did not read the fine print. Someone mentioned Unions? What century are you living in?
Unions have been busted and engineers/scientists with clearances have never been unionized.
SCIF fascilities are a whole nother world. After several “former chinese nationals” were arrested and convicted of spying in “secured fascilities” suddenyl things changed. And now we have chinese and Russian hackers and Putin playing Stalin….
With the new level of spying, cybercrime, and cyberwarfare we are getting to the point where one will have to go thru a locker room, change into fresh issue coveralls and slippers, and walk thru a detector.
The “accomodation” as previously suggested will be to get a set of approved devices that never leave the secure area.
If you dont like it, find a different job.
People have to understand- Nobody has a “right” to a job in a secured fascility and if you read the papers you sign you will discover that it is an “at will” situation: you can be let go for any reason or no reason.
So, work with the top dogs in security. Be nice, their job sucks. Help them out. They have to tell people that workers using fitbit are risks
Because fitbit has been used to track “sensitive individuals” and target them for kidnap or assisination. Yes really. We had a scientist kidnapped on the front range years ago, but they got him back.
Get a set of aids they can live with even if its the old earplug and cigaret box! Shoot I have a set of cheap $40 BTE digital amplifiers from Wally World that work adequately as a backup set! I am quite sure that something like that would work and make security happy, and can easily be left in the fascility.