Barrett Brown was jailed for four years for leaking intelligence documents, and was released in Trump's America.
This is his story.
After a series of actions both online and in the real world that took him from the forums of 4chan, to the halls of power, heroin addiction and federal prison, Barrett Brown is free.
He was arrested in an attempt to record, interpret and disseminate top-secret documents exposed by a security breach at Stratfor in 2011.
This particular company (Stratfor), was spying on activists on behalf of the government...
The prominent journalist who was also active in the hacktivist collective Anonymous, Brown recounts the exploits of 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 points the way forward in harnessing digital communication tools for collective action .
His book My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir it is more than just Brown's story.
It is a thoroughly researched dissection of decaying institutions and human nature itself. As Brown makes clear, institutions are made up of people.
People with personal ambitions and vices – and it's people, like him, just like us, who hold the power.
Upbeat or disheartening, My Glorious Defeats is an enlightening handbook on rebellion in the information age.
