The Internet allows people to circumvent law by committing criminal acts from areas where their activities are not illegal. Those areas will always exist, and thus new regulations will be just as ineffective as the old ones are ["Net Needs Law Enforcement, Author Says,"]. But Internet traffic is marked with IP addresses, and those addresses can be tied to specific networks with specific locations. Shouldn't it be possible to separate traffic based on the originating network and treat data coming from relatively insecure locations differently than data coming from relatively secure locations? It would be much harder for someone in a rogue nation to hack a network if he had to hack an intermediary network first. And unlike government regulation, which has zero impact in areas where these threats are likely to originate, separating traffic by location might actually work
Answer:An operating system, or "OS," is software that communicates with the hardware and allows other programs to run. It is comprised of system software, or the fundamental files your computer needs to boot up and function.
