> Don't even need to go that far. Just short all the pins and you will will kill a lot of motherboards. Interesting. USB 2.0 spec mandates overcurrent protecti

> Don't even need to go that far. Just short all the pins and you will will kill a lot of motherboards. Interesting. USB 2.0 spec mandates overcurrent protection on the power rail and ability to withstand continuous short circuit to ground or power on the data pins. I think 3.0 lifted the latter requirement, though. But I never tested actual hardware for that, besides power short-circuit protection which seems to work on my machine (YMMV).