From the article: "t’s important to note the way reCAPTCHA works. Each user (or bot) is presented with a control word, and a word unrecognized by OCR. This control word is already known to Google (who runs reCAPTCHA). If you get this first word right, it is assumed that you get the second word correct as well. So, in reality, you only need to guess the key word correctly.
I decided to just guess the first word and hope “secretary” was the control. It wasn’t."
It's ignorant because he then goes on to refresh recaptchas that are "impossible" to solve where the OCR word was gibberish (cut-off, etc.) but the key word was discernible.
I decided to just guess the first word and hope “secretary” was the control. It wasn’t."
How is that being ignorant?