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The Munk Center for International Studies in Toronto, Canada, has uncovered a huge Internet spy network that appears to be mainly operating out of China, but one of its researchers says this doesn’t mean the Chinese government is behind it – it could well be the CIA or Russia, he noted. The Toronto Star, reporting on the highly sophisticated operation the researchers called GhostNet, writes “The malware is remarkable both for its sweep – in computer jargon, it has not been merely ‘phishing’ for random consumers’ information, but ‘whaling’ for particular important targets – and for its Big Brother-style capacities.”