I decided to downvote you for both a gate-keeping attitude (how dare a non-SWE else understand a bit of this stuff?) and for name calling, etc. Please consider learning some empathy.
The ananlogies are horribly pained. It is an excess of empathy that ruins technical writing that could otherwise be quite rich with information. This attitude of writers having to do all the work needs to end; let the reader do some of it
edit- its reductivist to think that only SWEs would understand this stuff. Have you forgotten about the legions of IT professionals and computer nerds that many SWEs came from? The rich history of hacking, much of which this post laments? Or is that kind of nerditry simply unfashionable nowadays?
Not that I'm defending this crap, in my mind it's basically a rootkit that can snoop on anything in your system. Currently trying to figure out how to run games in a hypervisor.
If your adversary controls the hardware, you've already lost
Which explains why most of the moneymen in this industry push so hard to control hardware we've bought and paid for -- and in many cases built.
This is you right now