While Laz is known for his sarcastic, snarky, and witty remarks, he is being dead serious in this regard.
The site was so insecure until this week that it didn’t require what would normally be thought of as hacking, but more akin to report running. As I understand it has now Improved to ‘minor effort’ to gain access to what should be secured information.
Which is why why we value Lazamataz so highly on Free Republic...
(That and his innate ability to define the guiltyness or innocence of members of the opposite sex...:)
Yes, I realize that Laz has really been serious about the lack of security on the site. I have been following his posts on this topic and I realize that he knows what he is talking about, and has expressed the implications in no uncertain terms.
In a sense the seriousness of it is reflected in the sentence that I quoted from Laz’s post. Normally we think of people who have gone into a witness protection program who have a complete identity change to give some protection. If someone has tried to set up an account on the site, he might as well become a whole new person to avoid the consequences.