Security News > 2021 > December > Fisher Price's Bluetooth reboot of pre-school play phone has adult privacy flaw

A Bluetooth phone designed to evoke the carefree days of early childhood has been found to instead threaten the very adult prospect of being surveilled in your home.

The phone is the Fisher Price Chatter Special Edition, a device that adds Bluetooth and a speaker to the smiling, brightly coloured, wheeled, rotary dial phone on which it's previously been possible to make calls only by using one's imagination.

The phone also bears the name "60G LTE" - which stands for "60 great years, Let's Talk Everywhere" and an infomercial for the handset opens with "The past has finally arrived" before lampooning mobile phone ads quite nicely.

Before you try to find a vendor capable of delivering this before Christmas, consider this post from security firm PenTest Partners, because it says the Chatter has security problems that can turn it into a spy phone.

Separately, if the phone handset is left off, it will AUTO ANSWER any call to a connected smartphone, in a kind of 'reverse butt dial'.

The same attacker can also make the Chatter phone ring, so an unsupervised child is likely to answer.

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