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There it is... whoever setup the security policy for that browser has disabled localStorage, which Persona requires to keep someone logged in.
There's not much we can immediately do about this (unless there's a way a non-admin can change that setting in their browser, very unlikely but I'll check).
But a few good things have come out of this: one is, we can put that test script somewhere on microcosm and determine what proportion of users on IE8 this affects. Persona supports IE8, but not if those features are disabled, and there isn't any data on how many people that is.
The other is... we've been discussing hosting Persona ourselves (the code is entirely open source) or using another service to host it, which might mean we can add a workaround.
Adding another login mechanism (such as Google Account) is also a potential thing. The way we've built the platform would make this pretty straightforward.
Anyway, thanks for helping diagnose. Sorry to say I can't fix this now, but it's given us food for thought on logins.