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All right, lights red, we're recording. Hey, Tortoni, you're looking great today. Still writing, I see. See, here in my studio, which is just my closet, I have a picture on the wall made by Edward Manet. And it's a picture of a fine-looking gentleman sitting at a table writing something down. I call him Tortoni, but that's not his name.
This picture has captured my imagination and curiosity for countless hours. I stare into it, and I just fall into an abyss. But the thing about this picture is that it's not the content or even who made it. It's that this picture was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum back in 1990, and it's never been recovered. And I don't have the original. I just have a print of it.
But the thieves didn't just steal this picture. They took a bunch of others too. And this was the biggest single heist of all time. They estimated that the art that was stolen is worth $500 million. And it still remains unsolved. I'm looking at this picture on my wall right now. There's a $10 million reward for it. Yet mine, I just got from my printer for like five cents.
It's always been weird to me how art has just so much value. I just don't see how this picture, which is not that much bigger than a regular sheet of paper, is worth more than a mansion. But that's no longer the biggest heist ever. Because in 2022, a digital heist happened, which set a new record high. These are true stories from the dark side of the internet. I'm Jack Recider.
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Companies all over trying to scrape and store all kinds of personal data about me. My phone number, address, family members, where I work, sexual orientation, club affiliations, income level, what kind of car I drive. It's just endless. And every now and then I Google myself and just get freaked out about the amount of data there is about me out there. This is why I use delete me.
I registered there and told them what to look for about me. They were able to discover what sites have data on me and took steps to get that information removed for me. That's my favorite part. It's like getting help in this war. Their scouts know exactly where to look and they'll tell me what they found about me.
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