Little Snitch and Pro Book 'gift'

I was gifted a reconditioned, like new by all appearances, pro book OS X.7
The device works very well, impressive speed etc. Only one time start up was frozen and I maneuvered by it with a Pram reset on start up. This happened the very first time I restarted it and I never gave it any thought since it cleared right up.
Now here's my question.
I am demoing LS. I note that in the mDNSR section, a local iphone is making a connection, I assume, with my laptop.
This iphone is owned by the gift giver.
What does this mean?
I do no syncing, and I never will own a cellphone, ever.
My thoughts are that the iphone is simply showing up because airport is being contacted by the iphone user. Not necessarily is the iphone talking to my pro book, or is it? I cannot fathom any reason for an iphone to be popping up on my LS display. It is almost always popping up when the iphone user/gift giver is nearing my bunker, home, etc.
Help, please. 2 days of my life trying to sort this out. This is my first apple community post. I dread the answer but must have one.

I thank you for your time.
I am a noob. This is my only computer, no ipads etc. I just killed my 10 year old TV shaped apple, saving the plastic logo as Steve Jobs died, and affixed it to my grinder, on the lid.... I was having to prod the guts with a drumstick to start it, and one time I felt current crawl through the wood. In those days, I did suspect foul play, spyware, but the expired browser, 2 years gone, was only working because someone allowed it to work. I figured it was so old that no one would bother doing anything tricky, and I wouldn't have cared if the whole world did watch what I did or looked upon, unless, oddly, that it was the same person that gifted me the macbook. That would be very disconcerting. But I digress.
Snitch has never once asked if I want to allow or disallow anything. Mind you, it is a free demo.
I hardly understand code. I did remove two rules of the 54 (unallow mobileme) and saw the same iphone flash on for just a couple of moments in the LS mDNSR column. With 'allow mobileme', the iphone is there for many minutes at a time.
My problem is a bit wider than I worded it. I am suspecting I was given a loaded computer for monitoring purposes, but I am an adult, and not employed by the person who gave me the mac book.
In getting a possible answer to my initial query, I can start to figure out the extent of the real issue here. In other words, it may be hardwired. It may have undectectable software on it. As we know, spyware is commonplace because ~ well, just look at how it's advertised. Cheating spouses, *****, etc....
I am trying to see why xxx's iphone routinely shows up. Usually the colors are green in the two bar graphics, but I thought I saw red as well. In the apple 'activity monitor', red means outgoing, green means incoming. I am assuming the same code holds true for LS.

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