Barrett Brown is an American activist, author and freelance journalist. He is founder of “Project PM”, a distributed think-tank which analyzes leaked material about the inner workings of the cyber-military-industrial complex.
Brown was imprisoned on September, 12th 2012 because he allegedly published links to Stratfor material (that has been published by WikiLeaks under the name of “Global Intelligence Files”). In January 2015, Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison. He has since won major journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award, for his monthly column from prison in The Intercept. Barrett Brown was released from prison in 2017.
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