Farewell, Stevens: The Supreme Court Loses its Cryptographer

A couple of weeks ago ars wrote Farewell, Stevens: the Supreme Court loses its cryptographer.

"Few public officials have had a bigger impact on the Internet's evolution than Justice John Paul Stevens. He wrote seminal opinions in almost every area of high-tech law."

"It may not be a coincidence that the court's only cryptographer has been the court's most consistent friend of high-tech freedom. No one would confuse Justice Stevens for a regular in the Ars Technica forums, but Justice Stevens has always had a technophilic streak."

"According to the New York Times, he began doing his work on a computer in the early 1990s and became the nation's first telecommuting justice. Indeed, a Supreme Court clerk who served during the debate over the Communications Decency Act told USA Today that Justice Stevens was at that time an avid email user and 'was at least as computer-savvy as [his clerks] were.'"