> It's a "victimless crime" essentially.

It's not a victimless crime.

1. Every CS class I took had some form of curve. People cheating directly lowered the grade of people who didn't.

2. Cheating devalues the credentials that other students paid for. You can argue about the benefits of the credentialing system, but that doesn't change that fact that students cheating directly financially harms students who don't cheat.

3. It harms job seekers who now have to spend time going through additional screening steps because their credentials are no longer trusted.

It really seems like your trying very hard to justify some past behavior here.