It's easy to compare this with any other piece of equipment issued to an employee, wouldn't you think?

If that employee doesn't have a deep understanding of what the software is doing to the device, I could compare it to a postal employee jacking up a delivery jeep with a new engine and knobby tires, or a cop putting explosive-tip bullets in his service weapon, or an air traffic controller adding a CB channel to his approach frequency radio, or a McDonalds cook using better quality oil in the deep fryer.