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[Fallout 3] Why did the Enclave have so much trouble over a three digit code?

It seems like a three number password wouldn't hold the most powerful and advanced faction in the Capitol wasteland for very long. Why did they bother interrogating TLW so much about it, why didn't they just crack it immediately?
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Because it's easier.

They don't know how many security codes can be placed into the pad before something happens, if there are lockout measures in place, if it activates a self destruct, if it causes a mass dose of radiation on anything within 300km if it gets a wrong code without a certain seperate code being entered by James to keep it valid. They might be able to splice it open and crack it carefully over time, but when you've got someone who probably knows the code in the cage inside your secret bunker?

Might as well ask.