[Solved] Can i porposely corrupt a file through Java programming ? Also is it possible to scramble a file contents ?

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A simple RandomAccessFile scrambler would be this:

private static final String READ_WRITE = "rw";
private static final Random random = new Random();

public static void scramble(String filePath, int scrambledByteCount) throws IOException{
    RandomAccessFile file = new RandomAccessFile(filePath, READ_WRITE);

    long fileLength = file.getLength();
    for(int count = 0; count < scrambledByteCount; count++) {
        long nextPosition = random.nextLong(fileLength-1);
        file.seek(nextPosition);

        int scrambleByte = random.nextInt(255) - 128;
        file.write(scrambleByte);
    }

    file.close();
}

RandomAccessFile is exactly what it sounds like, a file that can be read from and written to at any position. You can choose the position by calling randomAccessFile.seek(long position).
Random is also what it sounds like, a factory for random numbers, bytes, etc.
So essentially
A) open the file for read/write at any position
B) get a random position, get a random byte, write the random byte to the random position
C) repeat B) for scrambledByteCount times

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