I live under a dictatorship regime and the last thing I want is to have my govt accessing my personal data.

Now I need an external drive to backup my data. WD Essential looks a solid and affordable product for me. I don't care for harddrive's encryption ability since I've been using BitLocker, TrueCrypt and DiskCrypt to protect all my data. But this Essential drive comes with hardware encryption and I want to use it to make my investment worthwhile.

Now my question is: if my password is safe (say, it's complicated enough and I don't tell it to another soul), can I trust the hardware encryption of that drive? to be specific, can the govt find a way(eg, pcb swap or use the data reading from the pcb) to access my data without me giving away my password?

I am new to this forum and admitedly haven't done any research. but anyway, I'd appreciate your quick and straightforward reply. Thanks!

Dictatorship? checkout a democracy

google:
government nsa backdoor into encryption
government agency backdoor spyware etc etc etc

http://www.wired.com/2013/09/nsa-backdo ... tole-keys/

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