Who are these &quot;officials&quot; and why are they anonymous here?<p>Anyway, what&#x27;s most likely to have happened is that other nation-states discovered NSA&#x27;s own backdoors and started using them. The NSA then freaked out and told Juniper it&#x27;s ok to patch them now. The reason why I&#x27;m implying cooperation between Juniper and NSA is because Juniper keeps refusing to eliminate the <i>well known</i> Dual_EC backdoor from their systems and are giving stupid reasons for keeping it.