Security News > 2021 > December > The cool retro phone with a REAL DIAL… plus plenty of IoT problems
Even when the mobile phone age arrived, the Chatter Phone retained its dial, its cheese-dish phone styling, and its sideways receiver.
We don't how how or if you can dial the plus symbol for overseas calls, but many countries let you use a special digit sequence instead. So, the Chatter Telephone doesn't take a SIM card itself; instead, it pairs with a regular mobile phone and acts, if you like, as a sort of extension - a happy, smiley, cheerful, brightly coloured, child-like extension phone with an actual rotary dial.
The Chatter Phone has no Bluetooth pairing security.
Pairing your own phone with the Chatter Phone doesn't lock other people out.
Apparently simply taking the paired mobile phone out of range - as you typically do every time you leave the house, for example - opens up the Chatter Phone up to everyone else again.
As PTP points out, the pairing-is-just-too-easy problem could be solved simply by adding a "Press to pair" button on the phone itself, so that you would need physical access to the Chatter Phone to initiate a connection with it.