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by bsdetector 3082 days ago
Yes thanks to HN being so quick to freeze comments I was unable to fix the example.

Point is, a JavaScript program in isolation cannot read anything, it has to interact with the other target code somehow. If that interaction (the data passed over the API call) can't fail after a certain point and can't be used to read data before that point, then the JS can't read anything.