There's certainly a fairly well culturally established method of dealing with holes in corporate internet security which Weev did not follow in this case.
However as a third person it's also useful for me to know the scope of this hole and how liable my own information was. Weev here is guilty of exactly the same reasoning that AT&T realised in court which is that a message is irrelevant without impact. And which has more impact: an article about how a vulnerability in AT&T security could have resulted in some leaked emails or an article about 114 000 potentially leaked email addresses?
However as a third person it's also useful for me to know the scope of this hole and how liable my own information was. Weev here is guilty of exactly the same reasoning that AT&T realised in court which is that a message is irrelevant without impact. And which has more impact: an article about how a vulnerability in AT&T security could have resulted in some leaked emails or an article about 114 000 potentially leaked email addresses?