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I'd use random data to make it hard to compress. You don't know if there won't be some link layer compression along the way.

• kcbanner 15y ago
  That doesn't really fix the problem, what if that random data happened to compress well? The solution is to not compress anything while downloading.
  • cbr 15y ago
    A large quantity of random data is incredibly unlikely to compress well.
  • gojomo 15y ago
    "Random data' [1] will not compress well [2]. [1] high-entropy in any of the usually-available ways [2] for any compression system actually deployed, as opposed to one contrived to match specifically the 'random' source