Broadcom should be chortling with glee today as the leading consumer Wi-Fi maker demonstrates its one-button security setup: Broadcom's second-generation SecureEasySetup lets consumers add WPA encryption to a network by clicking a button (in software or hardware) on an access point and then on devices that need to be added. I wrote extensively about SecureEasySetup and some of my concerns about, along with Broadcom's answers to, denial-of-service and man-in-the-middle nuisance attacks (read overview, contrasted with Atheros solution, and a follow-up).
Linksys and HP committed to adding SecureEasySetup back in January, and Linksys demonstrated upcoming hardware at the German technology trade show CeBIT yesterday.
At the VON conference this week, Broadcom demonstrated connecting a Wi-Fi voice over IP phone to a network using SecureEasySetup.