18 year sentence for Wi-Fi Hacking… Say What?

So I ran across this article Wi-Fi-hacking neighbor sentenced to 18 years - CNN.com as I was surfing through the news of the Inter-webs.  At first sight I was like WTF is going on here.  A dude hacked his neighbors Wifi and ends up with 18 years prison.
So here’s the deal and I must say, I’m not sure 18 years is enough for this one.
Matt and Bethany Kostolnik had reported to police that their neighbor, Barry Arndolf had kissed their 4-year old son on the lips.  Police show up, tick the neighbor off, not enough information to press further charges.
Barry Arndolf reads a few guides (a few have been some personal favorites myself) on “How to Hack WIFI”

• Cracking WEP using Backtrack; A beginner’s Guide
• Ryan Underdown
• Simple WEB Crack Aircracking and Cracking WEP with BackTrack3 –Step-by-Step instructions
• simple_wep_crack [Aircrack-ng]

Barry reads up, starts hacking at his now hated neighbors.  Once inside their network, he hijacks yahoo e-mail accounts sending some hate and death threat letters to people like Joe Biden and other figures that have big guys in black suits that care.
Barry continues to plant child porn on the users My Space and work e-mail addresses.  He even went to the point of sending the poor neighbors copies of their tax returns, just to show that he had possession of everything.
So this guy only gets 18 years, seem not enough, probably ruined the Kostolnik’s life.

So at this point, I’m going to write a nice article on how to use a Fortinet to protect you from this crazy work. 

Will be working on this very soon, “How to secure your WIFI router from external users”  This should help you if you ever have a chance to live next to a total crazy bastard that has some reading and IT skillz.