[saagarjha]

Security theater doesn't apply evenly, however. I know a couple students who could pretty blatantly cheat without getting caught simply because they owned a second computer they could position in the right spot, and had a hardware disconnect on their microphone. People that aren't well-off or tech savvy are going to be at a significant "disadvantage" here.

[mimi89999]

Some SW can simply be run in a VM and you can do anything you want on the host computer and activate and deactivate passed devices.

[Wowfunhappy]

They try to detect Virtual Machines. I don't know how easy it is to spoof since obviously I wasn't going to try it.