[tlug] Woman arrested for killing virtual reality husband

["SL Baur" <steve@example.com>]

> TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A 43-year-old Japanese woman
> whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made
> her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital
> persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police
> said Thursday.

The rest of the story is here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/10/23/avatar.murder.japan.ap/

Yowza.

The article says she is jailed on "suspicion of illegally
accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data."

It doesn't say what kind of OS this was on, but it really
doesn't matter.  Not even a highly secured Linux system
will save you when you give away the keys to the kingdom.

-sb