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Barrett Lancaster Brown (born August 14, 1981) is an American journalist, essayist and satirist. He founded Project PM, a research collaboration and wiki, to facilitate analysis of the troves of hacked emails and other leaked information concerning the inner workings of the cyber-military-industrial complex.〔 Project PM aims to operate a wiki in order to provide a centralized, actionable data set regarding the intelligence contracting industry, the public relations industry's interface with governments, the infosec cybersecurity industry, and other issues constituting what the project's members regard as threats to human rights, civic transparency, individual privacy, and the health of democratic institutions. 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 his sharing of an HTTP 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.〔 〕 Prior to 2011, Brown had ties with the hacktivist collective Anonymous. ==Early life and education== Brown was born in Dallas, Texas, to Robert Brown and Karen Lancaster, who later divorced.〔 He grew up in Dallas and exhibited an early interest in writing and journalism, creating his own newspapers on his family desktop while in elementary school.〔 He went on to contribute to his school newspapers, and interned at several weekly newspapers during his teenage years.〔〔 He attended the Episcopal School of Dallas through his sophomore year of high school, then spent his would-be junior year in Tanzania with his father who was residing there on business. While in Africa Brown completed high school online through a Texas Tech University program, earning college credits as well as his high school diploma.〔 In 2000 he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin and spent two semesters taking writing courses before leaving school to pursue a full-time career as a freelance writer.〔 〕〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barrett Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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