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Photograph by Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images A pair of China residents using Skype to communicate Cybersecurity Skypes Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.K. With It By Vernon Silver on March 08, 2013 Related ? The Great Internet Firewall of China Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype抯 role in China抯 online surveillance apparatus. The 27-year-old computer-science graduate student at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque doesn抰 speak Chinese, let alone follow Chinese politics. 揑 don抰 really keep up with news in China that much,?he says. But he loves solving puzzles. So when a professor pulled Knockel aside after class two years ago and suggested a long-shot project梩o figure out how the Chinese version of Microsoft抯 (MSFT) Skype secretly monitors users梙e hunkered down in his bedroom with his Dell (DELL) laptop and did it. Since then, Knockel, a bearded, yoga-practicing son of a retired U.S. Air Force officer, has repeatedly beaten the ever-changing encryption that cloaks Skype抯 Chinese service. This has allowed him to compile for the first time the thousands of terms梥uch as 揂mnesty International?and 揟iananmen敆that prompt Skype in China to intercept typed messages and send copies to its computer servers in the country. Some messages are blocked altogether. The lists梬hich are the subject of a presentation Knockel will make on Friday, March 8, at Boston University, as well as a paper he抯 writing with researchers from the University of Toronto抯 Citizen Lab梥hed light on the monitoring of Internet communications in China. Skype抯 videophone-and-texting service there, with nearly 96 million users, is known as TOM-Skype, a joint venture formed in 2005 with majority owner Tom Online, a Chinese wireless Internet company. The words that are subject to being monitored, which Knockel updates almost daily on his department抯 website, range from references to pornography and drugs to politic