Schiller said Apple executives believed users would feel more confident buying apps if they felt their payment information was in trusted hands.

The officers came and went as duty permitted, but only trusted hands and those of the press-gangs were ever allowed to set foot ashore.

A great cloak of secrecy surrounded the workings of the Cat, requiring any message back and forth to pass through a number of trusted hands.

The arms chest had been forced open, and the mutineers had driven most of the officers and the more trusted hands from the upper deck.

"Of course, the admiral might very properly have consigned such a document to the trusted hands of, say, his brother," says Bovill with a twinkle.