What is the difference between a file header and a file extension? Which is more useful to an investigator (and more reliable)?

What will be an ideal response?


A file header is encoded into the beginning of a file and cannot be changed by a user. A file extension is the 3 characters that appear after the period in a file name. The extension tells the OS what program to use to access that file, but can be changed by a user to hide data or confuse investigators. File headers are therefore more useful to the investigator in determining the real file type.

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Separate confinement is a nineteenth-century penitentiary system developed in New York in which inmates were kept in separate cells during the night but worked together in the daytime in silence.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Matt arrived home one day to find his wife in bed with another man. He ends up shooting and killing them both. Distraught, he heads to the gas station down the road and kills three more people. This is an example of what type of murder?

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Which of the following is not a critique of Freudian theory?

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