Why do you need WPS technology besides a quick wifi hack? What was the original idea?

Question

System administration

Here is a stupid user who chooses his access point, presses the button on it and connects to his network.
There is a hacker who brute-forces a pin-code and gains access to the miraculous fivi network.
The question is: How did it happen that the pin code sent by the hacker gives access to the network? What's the point of this? (except for the conspiracy of corporations and the NSA).

Answer 1

The idea was not to share your password with each homeless person, but to connect using temporary passwordless access.
It turned out this way because the pin does not change and it consists of numbers, so it is easier to brute force it. And then Pixie Dust also came, so in general ...
Read the technical implementation of the protocol in the English wiki without registration and SMS

Answer 2

Quick connection without entering / knowing the password at a party?

Answer 3

The idea was simple - the most simple and hassle-free network creation for an inexperienced user.
He poked a button, and everything was set up there by itself, and it worked safely.
And no wandering through the menu, answering incomprehensible questions, and filling incomprehensible forms.

Answer 4

Conveniently.

Answer 5

User-friendly
:ROFL:
Raised to the Nth power user-friendly. Tipo bought a teapot access point, came home, poked a button and everything "by itself" worked. Since user-friendly is completely opposite to security - what happened :)