The Barret Brown prosecution is a despicable thing. But you would think that by now people like Brown would realize that the government is going to do all it can to stop the dissemination of so-called "sensitive" information on the internet. They don't have a proper set of regulations and laws to control these actions as they wish, so they just throw everything they think of at anyone who pisses them off, even if - as it appears n this case - they are completely unjustified in doing so.