Apple, police sued over threats via iPod

A Missouri man is now suing Apple after accusing the company of illegally installing receivers into two iPods that allowed the Mafia to transmit threatening messages to him, a CNET report indicates.

Gregory McKenna filed the lawsuit last week in a St. Louis district court, and lists the St. Louis County Police Department, Apple, FBI, an auto mechanic, and a private investigator as defendants. McKenna said the defendants conspired to stalk, extort, and torture him on numerous occasions.