Peter Kafka

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News Corp. Confirms Sale of IGN

News Corp. has sold off IGN, its games-and-dudes site, to J2 Global’s Ziff Davis. The price was undisclosed, but, as AllThingsD reported last week, it would be a fraction of the $650 million News Corp. paid for the property in 2005. News Corp. also owns AllThingsD.

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik