that time I found on my ipad a number of musical pieces I never bought or downloaded for free. going to the Apple Store I pointed them out to the available staff and was told me how to send a complaint to Apple. a day later I recieved email explaining that Apple had downloaded to everyone's Apple device the latest album of U2 as a free gift and explained how I could delete it. after this I read about how the gift backfired a bit on Apple and the music group.
how this could be used in a fiction. Apple makes a gift of A peace activist bands latest album, they have it downloaded to the apple devices without the owners permission. some controversy occurs as not every one cares for the music and they create a site where people can delete it without downloading it.
unknown to Apple and the music group the deep state has had its computer agents infiltrate Apple and add malware to the music. malware that would allow them to monitor the devices it's downloaded to. malware that allows them to delete and add information to the IP address of any device its downloaded to so they can incriminate the owners.
a few weeks later some Apple owners begin to notice their devices seem to have a greater than usual number of problems, they run slower, apps are crashing, the malware has been activated because they deleted the music or have left it there without downloading, alerting the deep state to their anti communitarian behavior.
one of the people who drafted the malware has a turn of conscience and contacts the front man of the band, who when he hears what was done dosnt know to expose it or keep quiet. to help him decide the agents of the deep state give him a few deciding incidents, his private jet loses a door in flight and he has a cycling accident thanks to a directed energy gun speeding up his bike.