MacOS – Remove Airdrop function to do tightening of OSX

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Could you tell me how to remove Airdrop function to do tightening of OSX?

Looks somebody accessing my Mac via AirDrop. I would like to remove the function.
Please tell me how to remove the function except for not to turn off.

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I did some looking around and came up with that the removing the AirDrop will give you only 150kb of space.

So I am not sure it is wort messing around with it, since I do not know what dependencies are there, and the disk space gain is not worth mentioning it.

You can look it up in your

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ShareKit.framework/Versions/A/PlugIns/AirDrop.sharingservice/Contents/MacOS

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MacOS – AirDrop on Unsupported Macs

Hackers have found that Airdrop can be enabled on any Mac running OS X Lion, and will work over ethernet as well. It can be enabled with a shell command.
(source: osxdaily)

Copy and paste the command into the terminal of all macs that are supposed to communicate with other hacked macs.
This will enable AirDrop over both Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet connections:

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1; killall Finder;

To disable this feature use:

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 0; killall Finder;

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This does not enable the feature on your Airport card. The AirDrop feature is originally not there because the Airport card does not support it (simultaneous wifi and ad hoc networking). This hack enables AirDrop to run over whatever other network connection you have. Therefore, in order for two Macs to communciate this way both must apply the hack.

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