Cryptomator trying to spy on me?

[Anonymous]

Cryptomator just tried to request access to my keystrokes on MacOS Catalina. It’s like it wants to keylog me.

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[tobihagemann]

See:

Cryptomator requesting keyboard input monitoring on Mac

Hi everyone, I am new to Cryptomator and this forum. Recently I have installed Cryptomator on my Mac. When I was creating a new vault, I suddenly received a warning from macOS that Cryptomator was requesting to monitor my keyboard input (which I rejected immediately). Afterwards Cryptomator seemed to work fine without any other issues. I am wondering why Cryptomator needs to monitor my keyboard input. (According to macOS, giving it the permission to do so would mean that it can detect my input…

[markbyrn]

The problem here is Apple and their shoddy execution on Catalina. In the Cryptomator manual, it states, “The settings are displayed using the gear button on the lower right corner of the vault list. Mac users may also use the cmd+, shortcut.” Ergo, any Mac app that makes use of keyboard shortcuts will trigger this misleading warning. Using Catalina is reminding me of Windows Vista; too many nags and FUD security alerts

[tobihagemann]

Yeah, I must admit that I’m still holding on to updating to Catalina (things like this make me anxious). But it looks like that shortcuts still work even without that permission: https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator/issues/986#issuecomment-541311641

I have no idea why JavaFX requests that permission (as mentioned in the other topic).