My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump's...
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Author: Barrett Brown
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My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir by Brown, Barrett

My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

€42,26

My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

€42,26
Author: Barrett Brown
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump's America. This is his story.

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.

Author: Barrett Brown
Publisher: MCD
Published: 07/09/2024
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374217013


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2018 pg. 36

About the Author
Barrett Brown is an award-winning journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, VICE, New York, The A.V. Club, and The Intercept. In 2016 he won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. He was released from federal prison in November 2016 after serving four years. He lives in Dallas, Texas, with his PlayStation 4, vapor nicotine inhaler, and other ultramodern luxury goods.

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