Restricted Facility Life
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Ways to talk to people when in a secure facility with restrictive controls.

Google Voice
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Create a personal Google Voice account. Add a phone inside the SCIF to your list of call forwarders. You can toggle that on and off.

  * Select the gear icon at the top-right of the page.

  * Select the "New Linked Number" button.

  * Add your number. Voice will call you on that line and tell you a code.

  * Enter it into the web browser.

Now, you have a way to take phone calls inside the facility.

You can change it as often as you change seats!


Slack
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Some facilities forbid web connections to Slack. If they do this, it is almost always for a good reason.

.. note:: Use the tools provided.  Do not evade security controls!

To use Slack, you will have to use a non-web client. Many alternative exist. The author of this page prefers Sclack.

  * Create an EC2 or VPS instance accessible from the public Internet.

  * Ensure it has mutually valid A and PTR records in DNS.

    * Government facilities, in particular, tend to validate DNS in both directions before white listing a site.

    * They may require you to have page on 443 or 8443 with a valid certificate.  Use Letsencrypt.

  * Remotely log into your new VM...

    * ...using Putty as an SSH client...

      * ...which is also available from the MEMCM/SCCM in gov/mil environments.

    * ...using your web browser to hit a Novnc instance on your VM.

    * ...or using your web browser to hit a Shellinabox instance on your VM.

Sclack looks like Slack and all your usual commands work.