Or we were monitoring and waiting until a concrete connection to the Chinese government was made, and now these kids have blown it out of the water in such a way that nobody is going to get in trouble whatsoever.
Go Canada!
Could be. If that's the case, CSIS(Canada's CIA) was probably doing the same. However, if the US government did have a hand in this it's less likely that the Dalai Llama and Tibetian agents and all the people who this effects the most would've just come out and asked UofT to investigate rather than working with the US.
And either way, even if a bunch of Canadian computer nerds haven't topped the CIA, they've still topped China.
Topped China at computering.
Fear us. And beware. We'll soon be topping Japan at industry, and the US at military power, and France at cooking. And you won't be invited unless you ask nicely.