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by varun7nurav » Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:01 am
In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added as the message is forwarded to others or sent back and forth.
A: who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message
so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added
B: who had still been harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail
message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might have added
C: who still were harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick enabling
an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person is privy to any comments that a recipient would add
D: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that enable an interloper to rig an E-mail
message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient might add
E: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges had been private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that will enable an interloper to rig an
E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might add
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by GmatKiss » Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:09 am
varun7nurav wrote:In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added as the message is forwarded to others or sent back and forth.
A: who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message
so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added
B: who had still been harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail
message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might have added
C: who still were harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick enabling
an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person is privy to any comments that a recipient would add
D: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that enable an interloper to rig an E-mail
message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient might add
E: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges had been private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that will enable an interloper to rig an
E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might add

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by mehrasa » Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:24 am
varun7nurav wrote:In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added as the message is forwarded to others or sent back and forth.
A: who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message
so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added
B: who had still been harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail
message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might have added
C: who still were harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick enabling
an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person is privy to any comments that a recipient would add it is correct one since "uncovered a trick enabling" is correct and "would add" also make sense in this sentence
D: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that enable an interloper to rig an E-mail
message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient might add
E: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges had been private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that will enable an interloper to rig an
E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might add
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by gauravhasija » Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:18 am
varun7nurav wrote:In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added as the message is forwarded to others or sent back and forth.
A: who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message
so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added
B: who had still been harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail
message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might have added
C: who still were harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick enabling
an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person is privy to any comments that a recipient would add
D: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that enable an interloper to rig an E-mail
message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient might add
E: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges had been private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that will enable an interloper to rig an
E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might add
IMO C OA???
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by saketk » Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:35 am
varun7nurav wrote:In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added as the message is forwarded to others or sent back and forth.

A: who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added

B: who had still been harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might have added

C: who still were harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person is privy to any comments that a recipient would add

D: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that enable an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient might add

E: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges had been private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that will enable an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might add
1)Formatted the question for better readability.

2)You did not underline the exact portion correctly. High chances that it would lead to wastage of time

3)The answer should be D

Reason:- 'Blow to those still harboring is better than the 'wordy' --'who still were' stated in C.

also -- we need future tense here.. because of interloper.... person will be privy in 'future' .
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:56 am
IMO C

Another flaw with D is the subject-verb agreement error.
still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that enable an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient might add
Here that describes trick, which is singular and thus requires a singular verb enables rather than enable.
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by parul9 » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:05 am
My Answer: C

Though it goes beyond what is underlined. :)
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by varun7nurav » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:40 am
My approach: (Correct me if I'm wrong)
as 'might' is the past tense of may... it cannot be used to indicate a future action. this rules out options B, D and E.
past perfect in A is needless and also 'enabling' is C is better than 'for enabling' in A.

IMO : C
P.S: I did underline the complete part that was tested. Maybe be some technical short...sry.[/spoiler]
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by saketk » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:48 am
saketk wrote:
varun7nurav wrote:In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added as the message is forwarded to others or sent back and forth.

A: who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added

B: who had still been harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might have added

C: who still were harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person is privy to any comments that a recipient would add

D: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that enable an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient might add

E: still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges had been private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that will enable an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might add
1)Formatted the question for better readability.

2)You did not underline the exact portion correctly. High chances that it would lead to wastage of time

3)The answer should be D

Reason:- 'Blow to those still harboring is better than the 'wordy' --'who still were' stated in C.

also -- we need future tense here.. because of interloper.... person will be privy in 'future' .
I missed the Enable part.. I strongly feel that there is a typo here.. it should be enables..

option C does not look good to me :(
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