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Technically, if an attack's primary purpose is to compromise a service, and, as a side effect, it crashes the service, this is not considered a DoS attack [3].
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Cronin, E. (2005). Denial of Service. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23483-7_102
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