The Hacker News: U.S. Prosecutors decided not to pursue crucial criminal charges against journalist and activist Barrett Brown, and dismiss a majority of charges related to sharing a link to a dump of credit card numbers connected to the breach of intelligence firm Stratfor.
Supporters say Brown just copied the hyperlink from an the Internet chat room and then reposted the link on his own internet chat room, Project PM, that linked to stolen documents from the US government contractor, Stratfor Global Intelligence, included 860,000 e-mail addresses for Stratfor subscribers and 60,000 credit card details.
