{"id":51,"date":"2014-07-25T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2014-07-25T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:34:35","slug":"blackhat-defcon-2014-the-secbarbie-backup-buddies-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"BlackHat | DefCon 2014 \u2013 The SecBarbie Backup Buddies are BACK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog-intro\" style=\"color: #666666;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/6a01a51127e23a970c01a3fc9e844f970b-1024wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/6a01a51127e23a970c01a3fc9e844f970b-1024wi.jpg\" alt=\"Buddies\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We started this last year due to the great deal of attention paid to the treatment and incidents involving females at conferences. Instead of just addressing problems after the fact or talking about it, this was my attempted answer to speaking to potential issues and offering at least somewhat of a solution, and I\u2019m SO THRILLED to say that many of my friends jumped onboard to help as well to be the \u2018eyes\u2019 and \u2018ears\u2019 for anyone who needed a hand.<\/p>\n<p>I truly love this community and the amazing experience that the conferences can be, and we all want to do our part to ensuring everyone (from industry to journalists and everyone in-between) has the most positive experience that they can. For the 2014 week of BlackHat + DEFCON,\u00a0 a bunch of us are offering up our time and efforts to help. If you or someone you know, especially (but not only) female, who is new to the conferences or might need a friendly hand, give them this number:<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">+1-650-4-BACKUP<\/h1>\n<p style=\"color: #272727;\">This has been setup to contact me via voice and text during the conference so if I\u2019m not close by, I can pass it on to one of our trusted \u2018Buddies\u2019 that is close to the area to help assist people who find themselves uncomfortable, need a friend to talk to about something that happened, are in a situation that is turning bad that need some assistance, or need some first-time attendee guidance. Anyone who reaches out will have their information kept confidential and not shared unless the individual wishes for someone to speak on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>This number is not:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A party-info line. I can\u2019t get you into parties.<\/li>\n<li>A general conference information line. Google and conference staffs are there for you for general info.<\/li>\n<li>A phishing expedition.<\/li>\n<li>1-900-CHATROOM.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI just wanted to see what\u2019s up\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This number is for situations such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I need help with or someone to talk to in confidence about an inappropriate situation that is developing or has occurred.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s my first conference and I feel absolutely alone or am having an absolutely horrid experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This line was a positive experience last year, let&#8217;s keep the option open for those who may need it. Please don\u2019t be \u201cthat guy\/girl\u201d who abuses the number or thinks it\u2019s funny to crank call. Go crank call rooms at the Rio instead \ud83d\ude09 .<\/p>\n<p>If you are trusting, friendly, and want to help others, send an email to backups at secbarbie.com.<\/p>\n<p><b>**PHONE NUMBER WILL GO LIVE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND STAY ON-LINE UNTIL THE AUGUST 10TH<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started this last year due to the great deal of attention paid to the treatment and incidents involving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[24,2,7,3,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.secbarbie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}