I want my 2011 MBP off the internet. Entirely. For good. No internet.

Have you tried to go into your firewall and adding the apps (Word/Airpot/Bluetooth, etc.)?

If that doesn't work, maybe trying to google how to add apps or block ports through terminals. Additionally, you can try to google how to block ports such as 80/443/3389/15/18/20/21.... all of them.

 

Sounds like you just unplugged the BT and WiFi antennae? With the antennae unplugged you can still get a signal at close enough range so no guarantee of being off the grid there.

Did you try <just> turning BT and WiFi off?

 

just turn off the wifi .. uninstall the wifi drivers, etc. ..

 

Well every Mac I have, if you unplug ethernet and turn WiFi off nothing can get to the internet. Of course Word may still try, but the whole point is Little Snitch sits between the App and the Network, Word can't see the network isn't there so will still try...but it shouldn't succeed - do you have any indication it has? Can you browse the net? does Mail get email?

 

If you turn Wifi off, you're not "on the internet".

Just do that and be done with it.

 

How could a MacBook, with the Wifi turned off, still be "on the net"?

Just wonderin'....

 

Since disconnecting the modem in your home while only using the system in question, and turning off the wifi on your system as well, that should do it. Unless you are lazy and don't want to turn off the modem/wifi

 

really. wifi off, bluetooth off, no ethernet...and you cannot be online. anything else you're seeing, is behavior ON your mac, it cannot be coming from 'online'...if you're not online.

 

No, OP said he had disconnected cables, if he only disconnected the antennae then it is still ON and a signal can get through to the electronics if the source is close enough (he also said it was close).

OP should have left the cables and <just> turned it off. That does it. Here is what he said:

He may have subsequently turned it off, but then his "test" was that Word tried to access the net, that isn't a valid concern given Word cannot know whether the internet is there or not without trying as Little Snitch is in the way as well...

He says Mail is off and he hasn't tried to surf. (WTF, the most obvious test). Short of feeding paranoia I can't see what else can be suggested.

 

That was Little Snitch telling you that Word (on your computer), was trying to access the net, you can't stop that AFAIK, but it isn't "Microsoft" (on the net), trying to access your machine.

You said you unplugged internal cables, that isn't at all "all the right things"...

 

Word is already ON your computer.

I'm not sure you understand enough to know if you have a problem at all TBH.

Pulling cables was a BAD idea, initially you stated only that you had pulled cables, I still stand that you had WiFi still turned on at that point and had only pulled the antennae, at close enough range that would still allow a signal through. Word is a red herring, its on your machine not coming from the internet. Apps WILL poll the internet to see if it is there, they don't ask the WiFi, get told WiFi is off and change their behaviour.

Since to turned WiFi off in the menubar have you had any genuine indication the internet is accessible (last time you hadn't even tried a basic browsing test...).

OR Your Mac is unique. Wrap it in tinfoil and move on. This is just paranoia.

 

Yes I have LS, it wotks on both in and outgoing requests, in the right mode you have to grant apps permission in LS to access the internet, that is what you saw Word doing

Asking the question isnt a problem, you just need to start taking the answers onboard, otherwise why ask?