Barrett Brown

Who is Barrett Brown?

Barrett Brown is an American journalist, essayist and satirist. He is often referred to as an unofficial spokesperson for the hacktivist collective Anonymous, a label he disputes. He founded Project PM, a research collaboration and wiki, to facilitate analysis of the vast troves of hacked emails and other leaked information concerning the inner workings of the cyber-military-industrial complex.

He has spent over a year in a Texas jail and faces over a hundred more in federal prison as he awaits trial on an assortment of 17 charges filed in three indictments that include sharing an http link to information publicly released during the 2012 Stratfor email leak, and several counts of conspiring to publicize restricted information about an FBI agent. He is held under an agreed gag order prohibiting him from discussing his case with the media.