Bosses get into 007 gadgets
It's not just James Bond who gets to play with all the cool gadgets. More and more business executives are investing in secret agent-style hardware to make sure their top-secret company plans stay under wraps.
Bug-detectors disguised as fountain pens, keyboards that can secretly record everything typed on them, and clock radios with hidden cameras--devices once only of interest to spies--are now being bought by company chiefs who fear they are being spied on.
"The majority of the customers are buying countersurveillance equipment," said Julia Adams, director of surveillance gadget store Spymaster. "The majority are concerned with what is being leaked. They want to make sure they aren't being bugged and that the competition isn't listening."
Some executives carry pocket-size bug detectors when they are in meetings, on their own premises or elsewhere, that vibrate if they pick up on eavesdropping equipment.
