At the same time some experts are saying that the “improved security” in Microsoft’s yet-to-be-released operating system, Windows Vista, will have little effect, other experts are claiming that one of the “security features”, “BitLocker Drive Encryption”, are anti-Linux.
Eugene Kaspersky, of Kaspersky Labs, and John Kay of Blackspider predicted the security measures would offer little protection. Kaspersky said, “Within a year there will be something like a rootkit for Vista" and Kay had a pessimistic view of code quality, expecting a "bug per line of code". Kay was also pessimistic about the outlook for ordinary users, "My wife and kids are going to continue to be subjected to all the threats out there [with the switch to Vista]. If you think about it, that's just crap."
Meanwhile, Bruce Schneier saw a dark side to technology touted to protect data from being revealed if a machine is lost or stolen, "You could look at BitLocker as anti-Linux because it frustrates dual boot." Schneier is also concerned that "endless" warning messages from Vista will lead many consumers to ignore them and blindly agree to what applications are seeking to do.