Where is information stored between sessions?
The applet stores user and session identifiers between successive sessions. These are randomly generated values and do not contain the user’s true identity. The user value is used to help correlate multiple contributions over time. Also stored is whether or not the terms and conditions have been agreed to, a message digest (hash) value of the agreement (to determine if it has changed since last time and the user needs to be asked again, and the time of the last session (to determine whether or not it is necessary to ask the user to agree again since it has been too long since the last time). The applet uses the Java Preferences API to store these values, hence exactly where they live depends on the platform. On Windows, they are stored in the registry in “[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\org.pcir.upload]”. If you know how to use the Windows Registry Editor you can (carefully) remove the “org.pcir.upload” node if you do not want this information retained. On the Mac they are s
