Chapter 6

Vivian shot up from her seat, panicking. "It wasn't me! I have the version history! Everyone saw it!"

My advisor didn't bother arguing. He simply projected the evidence I had recorded onto the main screen.

The display showed my independent encrypted cloud backups, the Git commit history, and the device logs, all cross-referencing perfectly. It proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that I had been coding this AI prototype line by line for months. And it clearly showed that the local logs had been forcefully overwritten the day before submission.

Whoever did this covered their tracks well. But I…