dthx :
That's exaclty why the US Govt. is forbidding US companies to acquire Huwaei network equipments. They are equipped with the wrong type of backdoors ;-)
I see what you did there, except it was Huawei that was trying to acquire US firms. You might update your joke to say the NSA won't allow it, since they want to keep
their backdoors in these devices. If a Chinese state-owned-enterprise bought a US tech firm, they'd probably change all the backdoors, or at least the keys.
Speaking of which, I'm a bit skeptical that NSA is responsible for this, because their mandate includes security of US infrastructure and interests. I'd think/hope that they'd make any of their backdoors difficult to exploit by anyone else. But I'm pretty sure most backdoors used by the NSA are ones they discover - not created by them.
Anyway, I really wish (but don't expect) Juniper would say how the backdoors were added. Were they added to some open source libraries they use? Were they added by a bad employee? Or did hackers actually gain access to Juniper's source control servers and add them directly.