Every attorney I've spoken with has said that libel and defamation cases are nearly impossible to win.

My understanding is that the standard is that you have to post or write something that's false *knowing* that it was false, *knowing* that it was likely to injure the other party, and doing so with malice and intent to harm the other party.

It's the last two that are very, very tough standards to reach.

Of course, filing a lawsuit and driving someone to financial ruin trying to defend it can also be an effective way of shutting people up. Fortunately, in California, that's illegal. Unfortunately, in New Jersey, it's not.

The thing I don't get is how a company like TMM can possibly think that suing people who speak about security breaches can possibly help them in the long term. Maybe it gets people to shut up for fear of being sued, and if so, perhaps that's the reasoning behind it. But I look at any company who does that sort of thing, and has a history of threatening other people with the same thing, and the only thought that comes to my mind is that they are either incredibly insecure about their public persona, or they have something to hide.