Tanzanian Association Oslo

Vast Spy System

 Loots Computers in

103 Countries

The Toronto academic researchers who are reporting on the spying operation 

dubbed GhostNet include, from left, Ronald J. Deibert, Greg Walton, 

Nart Villeneuve and Rafal A. Rohozinski.

By JOHN MARKOFF

TORONTO — A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded.

In a report to be issued this weekend, the researchers said that the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, but that they could not say conclusively that the Chinese government was involved.

The researchers, who are based at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto, had been asked by the office of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader whom China regularly denounces, to examine its computers for signs of malicious software, or malware.

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