Can someone hack into my MacBook Pro even it's not connected to the internet and both Wi-fi and Bluetooth services are off?

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Need to know if someone can hack into my MacBook Pro even if it's not connected to the internet and both Wi-fi and Bluetooth services are off? Can someone enter my system even if the settings at System Preferences > Sharing are all off?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jun 24, 2013 11:51 AM

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Jun 26, 2013 3:32 PM in response to Jose Alessandro

Jose Alessandro wrote:


Need to know if someone can hack into my MacBook Pro even if it's not connected to the internet and both Wi-fi and Bluetooth services are off? Can someone enter my system even if the settings at System Preferences > Sharing are all off?


Yes,


Through Bonjour, Apple's open source zero configuration networking.


https://developer.apple.com/bonjour/


http://flylib.com/books/en/2.434.1.105/1/



And you can't turn it off or your computer won't work, however saving grace is the hacker has to be pretty close to your machine to do it.

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