And Luca, it turned out, had done the actual dirty work — had hired a sophomore computer science student to fabricate the screenshots that were meant to end my life.

But the student he hired had not simply photoshopped some images.

In the course of building convincing fake evidence, the student had broken into one of the university’s own testing servers — a protected, state-owned computer system — to make the forgery look authentic.

And that single fact was what turned everything.

Because breaking into that server was not a matter for a campus disciplinary committee.

It was a felony.