This seems right to me. The headline claim that Google was going to "require" encryption on all Lollipop devices contradicts the linked Google blog posts as wel

This seems right to me. The headline claim that Google was going to "require" encryption on all Lollipop devices contradicts the linked Google blog posts as well as Ars's own headline from when the announcement was made[1]. "On by default" is not the same as "required of OEMs". No one should be surprised that the OEMs might change the defaults, as that was sort of the point of Android at least at first. [1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/android-l-will-have-device-encryption-on-by-default/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/android-l-will-have-d...