I&#x27;m not paranoid or a conspiracy nut, but I can see where people would jump to the conclusion this is being done purposefully by the government to extend its blanket surveillance of the population.<p>I may not be able to hack your iphone, but if I can get on your network through a rather easy means, it will give  me access to what the information I really want and then correlate it with the rest of the information they can get from the carriers.<p>I would imagine this is exactly the sort of soft target the NSA looks for.