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10.4: How to disable Bonjour
Bonjour does NOT give out user names, and it gives out the Computer Name so that you can recognize your computer in a list. The Computer Name is fully customizable and doesn't need to contain your real name. If an attacker really wants to enumerate the running services, they can do this even if the dumb "stealth mode" feature is on. Your machine will always send an "ack" for a TCP request to a certain port, because if it doesn't, then networking wouldn't work at all. So leaving Bonjour on does not make it easier for an attacker. Lastly, Bonjour is not chatty when compared to all the other networking activity on the computer. If you actually looked at a packet trace, you would realize that.
10.4: How to disable Bonjour
you can find a person's user name depending on how they have their computer name set or what applications they might be running (webserver for instance) |
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