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Cisco has had a bunch of products certified as secure by the GCHQ's information security arm, the Communications & Electronics Security Group (CESG). The certification only covers the products to handle information up to the UK government's “Official” classification – that is, most government information. However, as the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    GCHQ certifies it is secure....

    well that's Ok as those guys have been proven trustworthy when it come to keeping things private.

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    1. Chika
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      Re: GCHQ certifies it is secure....

      I just love sarcasm in text... ;)

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Black Helicopters

    And a few days after these things are installed...

    They will probably recieve some mysterious ' firmware update '...

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Big Brother

    CESG certified backdoor ..

    'Cisco has had a bunch of products certified as secure by the GCHQ's information security arm .. enabling public sector customers to take full advantage of the very latest cryptographic algorithms.”'

    And presumably all backdoored by the self-same CESG ..

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  4. JaitcH
    WTF?

    CISCO ... NSA and GCHQ compliant

    It would be hard to imagine CISCO not getting approved given all the technical assistance they have give the Five Eyes group.

    Of course, El Reg readers, having smarts, will choose to use alternative suppliers.

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  5. Ross K Silver badge

    Approved for ...?

    After reading the report of the NSA team whose job it was to intercept Cisco kit in the supply chain in order to install "upgrades", all I can say is the yanks had some balls slagging off Huawei kit as dodgy and insecure...

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