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And what of it? Here's another unrelated whinge: no Apple stuff supports WPS even though it's highly useful for getting your device on the network quickly.

Way to find something negative to say when this MPTCP deployment is overwhelmingly positive no matter what you think of Apple vs Android.

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From the wikipedia page:

> WPS has been shown to easily fall to brute-force attacks.

(along with citation).

Sounds like it's a good thing Apple doesn't support it.

Actually, the AP fails, and most of the vendors fixed the brute-force attack by throttling the amount of tries.

Not implementing it on the client side has nothing to do with this security issue, but some other reason.

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