Comments on: Apple Store Regent Street Uses Deep Freeze For Mac

By: KO

KO — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:20:04 +0000

Deep Freeze is used at my school on all of the PC’s to make sure that any software problems or misplaced keystrokes can’t permanently disable a computer. It can just restore the whole thing right back to it’s original state (whatever part of the computer they “froze”).

It’s not necessarily a security thing, it might be a “We don’t want to disable any features (which would interrupt an otherwise smooth user experience), so just do whatever you want, we can always reset it and it’ll be fine” thing.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:20:00 +0000

interesting! i must say i’m surprised and thought that Deep Freeze prevented booting from an external volume. presumably Apple’s Firmware Password Utility would solve this shortcoming: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/firmware_hardware/openfirmwarepassword.html

By: Concept

Concept — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:43:48 +0000

Great post. Except deep freeze offer very limited security all one have to do is to install Leopard / Snow leopard on a usb drive, plug it into the mac reboot to the drive and once your are in all changes you make to the system is permanent you could even format their mac. I wouldn’t use deep freeze as a security tool unless its in a area with novice mac users.