[Permit]

Part way through the article they say:

>Last fall, WhatsApp added Mr. Marlinspike’s encryption scheme to text messages between users with Android smartphones, but there is no easy way to verify that the encryption software is actually turned on.

So they're being pretty open about the fact users can't determine if their messages are truly encrypted.

[xerophyte12932]

Yes but that's so deep down. A large number of people read the beginning and skim to the end. They might miss it. So it is a bit misleading IMO. Disclaimers should be more obvious