It seemed so plausible at the time, you tell the board meeting. All right, she had a bit of a Czech accent but she knew all about the Dubs and Jason Sherlock and Kevin Moran.

And boy could she dance! The pair of you cleared the floor in that cosy Prague jazz club. Then there was the trick she did with the local version of poitin, setting it on fire then knocking it back.

How were you to know it was a set-up? That her accomplices bribed the cloakroom for your laptop and downloaded all the files. That at the next day's meeting, they knew everything about your negotiating tactics.

The chief executive shows no mercy. "Why didn't you use a Pockey?" he demands.

This is a hard-drive that can hold 20 gigabytes of information - far more than most people ever need. It uses the "USB" slot on any PC, Mac or laptop and requires no batteries. It's really fast; up to 1.5 megabytes per second. And crucially, it is so small you can keep it in your pocket - at all times.

The Pockey, from £380 (€483) for six gigabytes, is available from Milestone Systems, Dublin, phone 01-2502000.