In fact the majority of the current (fourth) generation of leaders in the PRC have an engineering background.

Copyright only exists for writing that is "creative" in nature.

If by "creative", you mean fiction or poetry, then that's complete poppycock. True, you can't copyright facts, but you can absolutely copyright prose. So they are entirely within their right to try to stop the publication of a document to which they own the copyright.

The separate substantive issue was whether they can suppress the resulting news articles, and the judge ruled that they couldn't.

Patrick speaks truth. The point of the original article is that inkblots may be an elegant solution to the "strong password" and "weak password" problems.

With the classical strong password consisting of long, completely random characters, you risk forgetting it and needing to leave sticky-notes reminders to yourself, or calling the admin (or a spoof admin calling you!) to reset the password.

With the classical weak password, you of course are a major security risk.

The inkblot scheme is a trade-off, like all security schemes, but it seems to me it's meant to kill off the weak password, and consequently the vast majority of attackers who are capable of weak-password attacks on your accounts. That's a good thing in my estimation.