It’s one half of ‘bread and circuses’.

That server’s root access is now vulnerable to a compromise of the systems that have the private key.

The Adama Manoeuvre.

OMG.

The reboot of BSG places it 150,000 years before our present.

This made a lot of people very angry. I, for one, liked it. YMMV.

My take is that, even if it’s fiction, if it inspires someone else to do something similar then that’s a net gain in the world.