Also, how is it lazy to create a media shitstorm and get your house raided versus making some free money quickly and quietly? Are you really trying to frame his turning down free money as the MORE disdainful choice?!
We don't criminalize daydreams. And I'm not suggesting that we should.
However, we do take motivation into account with a great many crimes. For example, if you kill someone, your intentions, and how long you've had them, affect whether you get charged with manslaughter or murders 1 through 3.
He does not say that he is going to sell stolen information.
He does remark on irc that the information is valuable and could be sold or used for a phishing operation, but that is an observation of reality, and can not be taken as a statement of intent without some other evidence showing that he was likely to pursue that course of action, and given that he then handed the list to gawker it would seem that this was not his intent, though the possibility had obviously crossed his mind.
To consider the possibility of indulging in criminal behaviour is not the same as planning to do so.
If that were the case then any number of "spy thriller" type authors would be potentially guilty of conspiracy for publishing their "daydreams".