The Rant

My dear boss understands the necessity of technological advance in IT so he buys us top-of-the-line equipement.

A few years ago he bought four or five Microsoft (c) Intellimouse (r) Explorer (tm) USB mice which are still my favourite model (I like the original more than this new v2). Sadly, ALL of them died after a few months of use. Since resurrecting dead electronics was always my hobby I took the first one home and dissected it with a screwdriver and a knife.
The cause of death was very simple: A cut wire.

This could happen to any electronic device, but after the third identical mouse I became suspicious...

Today, when I removed the primary plastic coating around the last of the nest, I noticed that the aluminium secondary wrapping was cut at a certain place and that reminded me, that all the others had it cut there too.
It's where the cable goes out of the mouse, so that COULD be because of excessive usage - Someone obviously thought it would be 1337 to use 6 hair-thick wires for such a dynamic thing as a mouse but... why did this always happen to the white wire when all the other colored wires were made out of six tinies as well???

It is very simple: Because white is a bad color for wires to be.