ksec_theme | localStorage | This site | Remembers your light/dark mode choice | Until you clear it |
ksec_cookie_ack_v1 | localStorage | This site | Remembers you've seen this notice | Until you clear it |
ksec_cookie_choice | localStorage | This site | Remembers whether you accepted or rejected, so we do not ask again | Until you clear it |
ksec_build_notice_v1 | localStorage | This site | Remembers that you collapsed the build notice in the corner | Until you clear it |
ksec_notice_rev_v1 | localStorage | This site | The site revision you last loaded, so a page left open across a deploy can tell you it is stale | Until you clear it |
ksec_catalog_seen | localStorage | This site | How many entries the shared catalogue had the last time you looked at it, so the nav can tell you when it has grown and stay quiet when it has not. One number. It says nothing about you — only about how much of a public list you have already seen | Until you clear it |
ksec_findings_seen | localStorage | This site | The measurements of Life objects this browser has already sent to the shared catalogue, so it does not send the same one twice. A short list of numbers such as p6:d0-0:n14 — period, displacement, population. It describes what the background drew, not you, and it never leaves your browser: what goes to the catalogue is the pattern itself, and the server measures it there | Until you clear it |
ksec_notebook | localStorage | This site | The mascot’s research notebook on /mascot: the claims it tested in this browser, the seed, and the verdict, at most 40 entries. Never sent anywhere. | Until you clear it (there is a button on the page) |
ksec_last_visit | localStorage | This site | When you were last here, so the mascot can tell you the site was rebuilt while you were away — and stay quiet when it was not. A timestamp, nothing else, and it never leaves your browser | Until you clear it |
ksec_tool_uses_… | localStorage | This site | A per-tool daily-use counter for the free tools, one key per tool (a fair-use nudge, not an enforced limit, never sent anywhere) — set only if you actually use one of those tools | Resets daily; until you clear it |
__cf_bm and similar | HTTP cookie | Cloudflare, Inc. (our security & CDN provider) | Distinguishes legitimate traffic from automated abuse — the same security gate described in Methodology | Session, typically under 30 minutes |