Barrett Brown - My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

Barrett Brown - My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist,
Anonymous: A Memoir

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Barrett Brown is an American journalist, essayist, activist and
former associate of Anonymous. In 2010, he founded Project PM, a
group that used a wiki to analyze leaks concerning the
military-industrial complex. It was classified a "criminal
organization" by the Department of Justice. In late 2020, Brown
restarted Project PM.

After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in
and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin addiction, and
federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free man. He was arrested for
his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate
top-secret documents exposed in a security lapse by the
intelligence contractor Stratfor in 2011. An influential journalist
who is also active in the hacktivist collective Anonymous, Brown
recounts exploits from a life shaped by an often self-destructive
drive to speak truth to power. With inimitable wit and style,
palpable anger and conviction, he exposes the incompetence and
injustices that plague media and politics, reflects on the
successes and failures of the transparency movement, and shows the
way forward in harnessing digital communication tools for
collective action.

But My Glorious Defeats is more than just the tale of the clever
and hilarious Brown; it’s also a rigorously researched dissection
of our decaying institutions and of human nature itself. As Brown
makes clear, institutions are made of people—people with personal
ambitions and personal vices—and it is people, just like him, just
like us, who hold power. As optimistic as it is heartbreaking, My
Glorious Defeats is an entertaining and illuminating manual for
insurgency in the information age.

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