Don't attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by ignorance.
My sense is that conspiracy theorists are essentially a cron job crying "Wolf!" every 60 seconds. The occasional real-world wolf does not justify paying any attention to the alarms. OTOH, it's a false dichotomy to believe that the false alarms prove the non-existence of wolves.
Just like someone has the capability to do with virtually everything we have running software.