Firewire port broken?

fexonise

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So there is this thing going on our school. If you stick a lead pencil into a firewire port of a macbook pro and spark it, will it break the firewire port? is this true?
 
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Make a lot of damage, that's what but as there's only 5vdc there would not be a lot of sparking, maybe some smoke though. Graphite in the pencil has high resistance, you would get better results with a bare wire.

fexonise

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First of all, I did not clarify that I tried it. Second, It started going around the school, so was curious to what would happen to the port.