> November 20, 2025: I followed up to confirm the patch was in place from my end, and informed them of my intention to write a technical blog post.
Can that company tell you to cease and desist? How does the law work?
Can that company tell you to cease and desist? How does the law work?
They are strongly worded requests from a legal point of view. The only real message they send is that the sender is serious enough about the issue to have involved a lawyer, unless of course you write it yourself, which is something that literally anyone can do.
If you want to actually force an action, you need a court order of some type.
NB for the actual lawyers: I'm oversimplifying, since they can be used in court to prove that you tried to get the other party to stop, and tried to resolve the issue outside of court.