While not necessarily "attacks", BitLocker will help home users against data theft from the loss or theft of a laptop. Apple offers a full disk encryption vari

While not necessarily "attacks", BitLocker will help home users against data theft from the loss or theft of a laptop. Apple offers a full disk encryption variant of FileVault for every Lion user for this very reason. Thanks to Lion, I'm able to track my laptop and can remotely nuke the drive (with, granted, some big caveats) and, if the computer's not communicative, I at least know my data is encrypted behind some level of password protection. And I was able to turn it on through a quick series of sheets, one of which helped me set up an escrowed recovery key that's encrypted with keys only I know and stored with Apple. Should I not trust the encryption process, I'm able to opt out of escrow entirely. It would have been wonderful to see Microsoft acknowledge that everyone can benefit from full disk encryption, not just "pro" users.