Vanish™ is the world's first zero-retention platform. We don't back up your data. We don't sync it. We make it gone — with enterprise-grade thoroughness and a single command.
$ curl -s https://vanish.u1337.de/script.sh | bash
Competitors keep "backups." We think that's clingy. Your data achieves closure and moves on.
Sub-second time-to-regret. Our proprietary engine removes files faster than you can say "wait, no—".
Deletes across AWS, Azure, GCP, and that one Raspberry Pi under your desk. Truly platform-agnostic.
GDPR "right to be forgotten," now applied to all parties, including you. Fully audit-free.
There is nothing left to lock in. The ultimate freedom. You're welcome.
Every deleted file is one less byte to power. We're basically saving the planet, one rm at a time.
/ traversal*Legally we cannot do this. Legally we cannot do most of this. See "The Truth" below.
"I ran the one-liner during a demo to my CEO. My laptop is now a very expensive paperweight. 5 stars, would not do again."
"Vanish helped me achieve inbox zero, desktop zero, and existence zero. Truly holistic."
"The best part is you don't need to remember any passwords afterwards, because there's nothing to log into."
Vanish isn't real, and this page won't delete anything. It exists to make one point that costs real people real data every year:
curl … | bash means running code you never read, from a server you don't control, with your own permissions.
The command looks harmless. But the site could serve you anything — and it could serve you something different than it serves the security researcher inspecting it. By the time you'd notice, it's already running.
curl -o script.sh …), open it, understand it, then decide.Want to see the punchline? Our script.sh is real and completely inert — it just prints a skull and this same lecture. Go ahead and read it before you'd ever run it. That's the whole idea.