>I believe no one is entirely masculine or feminine.
Talk about yourself. I know very well what I am and what I am not. If you don't, that's on you, but don't try to push it on others as if it's the new standard.
I've done very effective application-layer DDoS attacks in the past with a meager ADSL over Tor. Completely free. But of course you can also spend thousands in a botnet to flood someone off the planet. That's not the point.
If you substantially change the hardware of your computer, you are supposed to get a new licence because it's like it is another computer. It's not a bug but a feature.