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LOL. Seems like the OP is confused and misreading normal macOS/iOS behavior as a conspiracy.

Interface stats are cumulative since boot (eg: not real-time), mDNSResponder traffic includes all historical Bonjour activity. utun tunnels are standard iCloud/VPN infrastructure. Shannon-Hartley math proves WiFi can move data, not that anything covert is happening.

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Mathematically invalidated by the temporal anchor in the artifacts.

The spindump captures a precise 2.00-second window (2025-12-31 13:35:14) where mDNSResponder (PID 10252) is in an active execution state with Priority 31 scheduling. Real-time thread activity and kernel buffer management do not occur for "historical" data.

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