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________ with someone else’s email account is now a very serious offence.

The correct answer is

Tampering

Understanding Email Account Tampering as an Offence

The question asks to identify the most appropriate word to complete the sentence: "________ with someone else’s email account is now a very serious offence." To answer this, we need to understand the meaning of each given option in the context of digital security and legal implications.

Let's examine the options provided:

  • Involving: This word generally means to include someone or something in an activity or situation. While someone might be "involved" with an email account, it doesn't specifically convey unauthorized interference or a criminal act on its own.
  • Assisting: This means to help or support someone. Assisting in a legal sense could be part of an offense (e.g., assisting in a crime), but simply "assisting with an email account" isn't inherently a serious offense unless specified as assisting in something illicit.
  • Tampering: This word means to interfere with (something) in order to cause damage or make unauthorized alterations. When applied to an email account, tampering directly implies unauthorized access, alteration, or misuse, which is indeed a very serious offense in today's digital world. It covers activities like hacking, changing passwords without permission, or accessing private information stored in the account.
  • Incubating: This term primarily refers to the process of developing or growing something, often in a controlled environment, or maintaining something at an optimal temperature for development (like eggs). It has no relevant meaning in the context of interfering with an email account.

Tampering and its Legal Implications

Tampering with someone else's email account is considered a serious cybercrime. This is because email accounts often contain a vast amount of personal and sensitive information, including private communications, financial details, and access to other online services. Unauthorized access or interference, often referred to as hacking or identity theft, can lead to significant privacy breaches, financial fraud, and other harms. Laws globally, such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the United States or similar provisions in other countries' cybercrime legislation, specifically target such unauthorized access and manipulation of digital accounts.

Therefore, the word Tampering most accurately describes the action that constitutes a very serious offence when performed on someone else's email account.

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Important Questions from Verbal Deduction

  1. Read the following paragraph and choose the correct statement.

    Climate change has reduced human security and threatened human wellbeing. An ignored reality of human progress is that human security largely depends upon environmental security. But on the contrary, human progress seems contradictory to environmental security. To keep up both at the required level is a challenge to be addressed by one and all. One of the ways to curb the climate change may be suitable scientific innovations, while the other may be the Gandhian perspective on

    Small scale progress with focus on sustainability.
  2. The American psychologist Howard Gardner expounds that human intelligence can be sub-categorised into multiple kinds, in such a way that individuals differ with respect to their relative competence in each kind. Based on this theory, modern educationists insist on prescribing multi-dimensional curriculum and evaluation parameters that enable the development and assessment of multiple intelligences.

    Which of the following statements follows from the given text?

  3. Alexander turned his attention towards India, since he had conquered Persia. Which one of the statements below is logically valid and can be inferred from the above sentence?

  4. Most experts feel that in spite of possessing all the technical skills required to be a batsman of the highest order, he is unlikely to be so due to lack of requisite temperament. He was guilty of throwing away his wicket several times after working hard to lay a strong foundation. His critics pointed out that until he addressed this problem, success at the highest level will continue to elude him.

    Which of the statements (s) below is/are logically valid and can be inferred from the above passage?

    i) He was already a successful batsman at the highest level

    ii) He has to improve his temperament in order to become a great batsman

    iii) He failed to make many of his good starts count

    iv) Improving his technical skills will guarantee success.
  5. Choose the statement where underlined word is used correctly.
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