Barrett Brown

Barrett Brown       ( Journalist,  Author,  Activist)
Born	Barrett Lancaster Brown August 14, 1981  Dallas,  Texas
Nationality	American
Interests	•  Military-industrial complex •  Stratfor •  Palantir •  'Anonymous' •  Wikileaks •  HBGary •  Romas/COIN •  Peter Thiel •  Thiel influence network •  Anarchism
Interest of	Anna Zetchus Smith
Founded Project PM, a group that used a wiki to analyze leaks concerning the military-industrial complex

Barrett Lancaster Brown is an American journalist, activist and former associate of Anonymous. In the 2011/12 period he was sometimes referred to as the "spokesperson for Anonymous". In January 2015, Brown was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for the crimes of accessory after the fact, obstruction of justice, and threatening a federal officer stemming from the FBI's investigation into the 2012 Stratfor email leak. Prosecutors had previously brought other charges associated with sharing a link to the leaked Stratfor data, but those charges were dropped in 2014. As part of his sentence, Brown was also required to pay almost $900,000 to Stratfor in restitution.

Activities

In 2010, he founded Project PM, a group that used a wiki to analyze leaks concerning the military-industrial complex. He was involved with and reported on the HBGary e-mail leak.

In late 2020, Brown restarted Project PM.

Published My Glorious Defeats in 2025.

 

Documents by Barrett Brown

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)
Document:Not All Propaganda is Equal	Article	30 May 2012	Astroturfing Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 Sock puppet
Document:Romas/COIN	Wikispooks Page	2011	Romas/COIN HBGary

 

Quotes by Barrett Brown

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Corporate media	“We have the end result of a press system that was never designed by earnest technocrat-kings to achieve some high-minded civic end, but that instead grew piecemeal to serve the desired and self-delusions of both its customers and its practitioners. It is an industry comprised largely of poorly compensated, job-insecure functionaries who must produce a degree of public view, and who must do so with limited time, subject to the whims of editors, and within an economic framework that presents media professionals with a choice: either reward the salacious interests and childlike attention spans of a large part of the public, or risk everything in an appeal to that virtuous minority who care about the truth above all and are emotionally and intellectually equipped to understand it.”	9 July 2024
Paedophile	“[...] back in 2007-2008, just like with the show, Perverted Justice, or Catch a Predator, [...] well there's a lot of us doing stuff like that back then, [...] and people still do it, they pretend to be young girls and all that, and as a proof of concept, as a test back in 2007 I did this and tricked the perp, the pedophile, into calling my number which turned out to be the number of the local Brooklyn New York police station. And then I told them, look you've just called that number, they've got that on file, I can send this to them right now [the chat log], unless you do what I tell you to do, [...] I now have this guy's life in my hands, because I can send that to the police station and he's going down. So alternatively, if I were say, someone who wanted to build up a slave army of pedophiles, in order to achieve certain ends, I could say now here's what you have to do, you have to do the same thing I just did to you to three other people. Tell each one of them to do it to three other people and then down the line when I'm ready for you to do the actual work, I'll provide instructions, [...]”	9 June 2022	KONCRETE podcast

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks	article	17 February 2011	John Young

 

A document sourced from Barrett Brown

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)
Document:Romas/COIN	Wikispooks Page	Romas/COIN HBGary	2011	Barrett Brown

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