The article was well written, really enjoyed it and I learned something as a Swiss citizen using this outlet every day! But I agree with the other commenters, I would replace the AI generated images with something else, they drag drown the articles credibility IMO
I work the email security company xorlab[0], where my colleagues and I did a thorough analysis of real subscription/email bombing waves that we saw at our customers[1].
Here are some interesting additional information from the attacks we analyzed:
* Email bombing as a service is a thing, where you can buy 10,000 credits for $10 and easily bomb target inboxes with over 2000 emails per hour.
* Most all email bombing attacks starts in the morning, between 8-10.
This has happened for a while. In February of this year, the same attack vector was used in an attack to trick developers into thinking that they'd got a job offer from GitHub: https://www.xorlab.com/en/blog/phishing-on-github
This is a while back, but I designed and built an AI-art installation from scratch, where I trained a GAN network to generate abstract art. The generated images was shown on a Samsung The Frame, and below the screen was a button. If you pushed the button, a new and unique piece was generated and shown on the screen.
I think, it total, I spend around $1100, but then I also paid for fast shipping. I think you get get that number down quite a lot by being more careful in the sourcing :)