That sucks, but how much smoke/damage is going to come from a paperclip stuck in a USB port, really?<p>All Chromebook ports are low-voltage, you know, so it seems to take a lot of work to get that huge volume of smoke as pictured in the article's photo. Is that real or staged?<p>A million years ago, I learned that I could hard-reset my VIC-20 or C=64 using a bent paperclip on the User I/O port. It worked a treat, until I accidentally shorted the wrong pins. There was virtually no smoke, no fire, just a little pop, and an expensive trip to the repair shop (that's when you could get computers repaired for reasonable rates, at the same place you could purchase them!)<p>Surely there are circuit breakers or some kind of protection on Chromebook ports, or the cheap ones simply cannot give off much smoke before they simply malfunction?