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It seems farfetched that Akihiko Kayaba would be able to sneak in all that
malicious code into Sword Art Online without anyone knowing. Surely it would
have been a big project with many developers. Furthermore, it seems like it
would be difficult for him stop the other developers from fixing Sword Art
Online. Even if he destroyed the source code or something, they still had a
whole year to figure something out. Do the light novels shed any more light on
Kayaba's scheme?


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Is there any explanation for how Akihiko Kayaba managed to trap everyone in SAO?


I've read the Light Novels and it doesn't really cover any more than the anime
on how he managed it. And in all honesty, its entirely possible that he was
able to slip all that coding in. My father is a programmer so I have a rough
idea on how much code goes into a lot of projects and there are actually very
few times that people get to view the code as a whole, with each person or
group working a small part and then sending it in to add to the bigger
project. With this knowledge in hand, being able to work that much code in
wouldn't be too far fetched even if Kayaba wasn't top dog, but since he is it
is very conceivable that it could happen.


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Since Kayaba is known as someone with a high position for the development of
the game and the NerveGear, he's probably highly involved with the development
and he could have had some backdoor program or an admin level access to the
system.

That way he can just remove the Logout option in the database as well as
overwrite the program on the nervegear (as it's also connected to the internet
via the pc) to fry the player's brain when attempted to be taken off (assuming
he hid an extra "feature" in the hardware design that of the nerve gear that
could amplify the voltage/ampere).


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