because they're so very shy about that.

And hence the motivation for my "pretty please."

I don't think they would. It's like the game that motorcycle cops play where they bet each other that they can find something to write a ticket for on any random car. If they tried to turn on the camera and nothing came through, they could ask to inspect the laptop because of "a glitch they noticed", at which point they could probably find at least 1 thing that broke the rules -- "This is no good, the tape residue has damaged the internal gyro sprocket, and now the whole laptop must be replaced."