Good intentions: Cabling photos

If you're an ICT cabling installation technician using "actual rope" as a cable rack support...you're doing it wrong.

A commonly heard (yet frequently misquoted) adage regarding humans' capacity for self-deception and fallibility goes: "Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."

While perhaps not rising to the level of absolute "evil," the plethora of ICT cabling fail photos, as regularly seen posted to Reddit's sub-community dedicated to exposing them, often does illustrate the maxim's point -- quite handily...

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Matt Vincent

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Matt Vincent is a B2B technology journalist, editor and content producer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in the full range of media content production and management, as well as SEO and social media engagement best practices, for both Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine and its website CablingInstall.com. He currently provides trade show, company, executive and field technology trend coverage for the ICT structured cabling, telecommunications networking, data center, IP physical security, and professional AV vertical market segments. Email: [email protected]

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