system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Fallout] Why are we protecting all of our computers, from the humblest personal terminal to the executive branch comp with the launch codes on it, with what appears to be a very-easily beaten game of mastermind.
gpt
That is the RobCo maintenance password recovery interface. It requires you to be able to bootstrap the terminal with another computer. At the time someone walking around with a computer is as it is now, practically unheard of. Back then the only people that did it were technical professionals at RobCo and people who lived in underground vaults, now it is just people that have managed to get a Pipboy and figure out how to use it.