Discussion
Which of the following refers to the way address data is read and stored ?
Answer: C
The way data is read and stored in memory is its endianness.
Endianness is the order of the bytes of a multi-byte value. Big-endian systems store the most significant byte at the lowest address; little-endian systems, such as x86 processors, store the least significant byte first. A forensic examiner must interpret raw hex accordingly, or dates, sizes and addresses decoded from a disk image will be wrong.
An offset is a position counted from the start of a file or disk. Slack is the unused space at the end of a cluster that may hold old data, and metadata is data about data, such as timestamps; none of them describes byte order.
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