Somebody said that between security, convenience and price you can pick only two of them. If you choose security and convenience you will have to pay a high price for a product like that. Naturally when you choose a product that is both convenient to use and cheap that's where the vulnerabilities happen. The price you pay is that one of exposing yourself to a breach.. of trust, privacy, identity ?
You have to make a choice of what you value in life - somebody wise once said, sadly we are not versed enough in technology to see how it connects with our values. Maybe we do not place an emphasis on our values any more, because if we did would we would pay more attention to securing them in the first place ? Have we allowed ourselves to outsource this responsibility to some other, omnipotent entity that we believe will do better job than we can ? Those questions I have in my mind as I test the security of the few routers that I own.
I have put myself in the shoes of your average consumer who is delighted to use the convenience of using WPS (Wireless Protected Setup) where he at the push of a button can evade this huge, painful, daunting inconvenience of entering an 8 digit alphanumeric password into their devices to connect to the network once in a lifetime! I guess we really are lazy, if we asked for a feature like WPS. Very convenient, sure.... secure, mmmm not so much.
Whilst the first attack on aforementioned EX2700 was an offline PixieWPS approach this on is slightly louder. Welcome to...