Re: Will the Open Group consider incorporating software security features in its software technical standards given the fact that these days lots of software are getting hacked?

[Amit via austin-group-l at The Open Group]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 at 02:25, David A. Wheeler via austin-group-l at
The Open Group <austin-group-l@opengroup.org> wrote:
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> > On Jan 31, 2026, at 12:17 PM, Amit <amitchoudhary0...@gmail.com> wrote: ...
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> > In my opinion, denial of service is better than getting hacked. In
> > DoS, no personal information is leaked. But if someone gets hacked
> > then his/her personal information can be leaked.
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> No. In some environments, it's much more important to
> keep the system running *even* if information leaks.
> In hospitals, for example, leaking medical records is bad, but
> having people die because the equipment won't run (availability) is much 
> worse.

The denial of service will happen to those people who want to process
really huge datasets - probably, more than 75% of the RAM size.

Any equipment that is connected to the patient won't be processing
such huge datasets.

Can you please give an example of an equipment that is connected to a
patient and it has to process really huge datasets?

Amit