In the actual chat logs (which Ars ignores), another chatter brings up shorting the stock, weev explicitly says shorting the stock would be illegal and that if someone wants to do that, not to involve him. Aside from the fact that no one did it and this was obviously silly chat room banter to begin with, weev is actually showing intent of not running afoul of the law.

Later in the chat, another user says that weev should post the leaked data to a public mailing list, and weev says no because that could potentially be criminal.