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Originally Posted by Klashikari
I already considered the "in-game admin console" being too convenient in SAO arc, but even having an admin card "in-game" makes even less sense: so instead of having account/character binded admin rights, they are required to have a virtual item to have such privileges... That makes Asuna's opportunity to have such thing in a very contrived way. Suffice to say, if Asuna wasn't shown using the card right away, that probably means she needs a console, which isn't present in her cage... but wait, since the cage is "PHYSICAL" (instead of being code based restriction upon her character), what would stop Yui to get there and get the card then?
Really, the VR system wasn't too bad at first, but assuming it was in the LN already, it has so many IRL features, even moreso in ALO that it makes little sense in term of program usage, no matter how "real" the initial designer, Kayaba, wanted it to be.
So having Asuna roaming around is already breaking the suspension of disbelief, especially being able to enter in such critical room without any security door (making no sense compared to the console), but the whole system has so much flaws it adds more "stupidity" to what Sugou was planning.
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The logic for having some thing bound to object rather than to account has been brought up before. Sugou has a small number of accomplices, and there are likely more employees of the company with GM rights that don't know what he's doing. One misconfiguration, or hacker gaining elevated rights, and you could have strangers teleporting into their research facility, doing whatever they want. Binding the research facility things to objects instead means that any person that stumbles on Asuna can't let her out, and anyone that stumbles on one of the rooms while no one is there won't be able to operate anything, no matter what rights they have.
Beyond that, it's pretty clear that Sugou and his cohorts suffered from a bit of tunnel vision while programming their research facility. They were thinking in terms of building a real world facility in VR, rather than building a facility in VR. All the possible extra security things they can do in VR simply didn't occur to them because they were thinking of things that the real world does for security. It'd be childs play to bind Asuna like an NPC so that traveling beyond the edge of her cell would merely teleport her back to the center of it, thus removing the need for a filter for the keypad. But they were thinking in terms of how one would imprison someone in a real world cell, and mimicking that.