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other university students started looking at a public transport's ticketing system because they were fans of public transport and interested in how the data was encrypted. They were also interested in what protections were in place against malicious users creating fake tickets

they were already aware of the potential flaws, but it was a large and expensive operation to change the tickets

cryptography should be impossible to crack, even if a potential attacker or reverse engineer knows every detail about how it is implemented. This system on the other hand is relying completely on users not knowing how it is implemented, which may have been fine when it was introduced in the early '90s because much fewer people had access to the technology required to read the tickets, or computers fast enough to analyse the data

Last year, 46 per cent of companies in North America and Europe issued Macs to employees,

Forty-one per cent of Apple users were directors, 43 per cent earned more than $US150,000 a year, and 28 per cent were between the ages of 18 and 24

Younger workers and those near or at the top of the corporate ladder were more likely to use Apple products in the office