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There is something called barracuda that wont let me access a website, how do I get past it?

The program is supposed to stop students from wasting their time, so I cant enter a dating website, ther must be a hack to stop the barracuda

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  • Jamfo
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    Sorry, but if the network admins have installed a Barracuda firewall on the network (or any business-class firewall), you just aren't going to hack your way around it! If it were that simple, companies wouldn't spend countless thousands of dollars on this type of hardware.

    Also be aware that this type of hardware is also used to monitor and track traffic. So even if you found a way past the site restriction, your activity would still be monitored and recorded. What does this mean?

    **If you're one of the students and you are caught hacking the network, you can count on an instant expulsion from the school.

    **If you're a teacher or employee at the site, you will fired.

    Is getting on some dating web site really worth being expelled or fired? Just wait until you get home and log on from there. Trying to hack a security feature on a network will only get you into trouble.

  • 1 decade ago

    Agree with Jamfo.

    "ther must be a hack to stop the barracuda"

    I believe Barracuda is a "black box" type device that essentially acts as a proxy for all network traffic to the web. If not a "back box", it would be a software application running on a server that acts as the proxy for the network traffic. In either case, hacking it would be difficult, especially without getting caught. You would need to have local access (preferably admin) to the device or server where the Barracuda software resides, or you would need to identify some sort of exploit (buffer overflow, escaped characters, etc...) that hasn't been discovered by security experts (or an existing one that hasn't been patched).

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