You are happily surfing the Internet on your laptop, zipping from one offshore financial services provider to another, when, suddenly, you stumble across something intriguing. It seems to be about the Ansbacher scandal. One or two more clicks and you're in! It has not only all the names of the Ansbacher depositors, but also every detail of each account, and photographs of all the participants, their villas, and their yachts.
You download it all immediately. You plan to copy it onto dozens of diskettes and distribute these to all your friends. This will boost your social standing enormously, placing you at the epicentre of a superb, taxscam, gossip ring.
Too late you realise that the data package is 2.3 Mb - too big to fit on those 1.44 Mb diskettes. Your chance is gone, and you revert to your previous "inert" position on the social scale.
If only you had fitted one of the new Clik drives! These tiny devices slide snugly into the PCII slot on your notebook, and each diskette holds 40 Mb, not 1.44 Mb. And it is made by Iomega, the people who invented the Zip drive.
The Clik drive, around £200 (€254), and its diskettes, around £8, are available from computer suppliers.
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