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by nwmcsween 1397 days ago
Sure thing!

unzip resume.docx; cd resume; dd if=/dev/random of=crap.tax bs=1M count=19;cd ..; zip resume.docx resume

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You're going to be sitting there for a while waiting for blocking random to fill 19MB. You want urandom.
These days, blocking random isn't a thing anymore. /dev/random and /dev/urandom just do the same non-blocking operation.