What kind of NSAware are you worried about, and why do you think buying new would lessen those chances? While a refurbisher could potentially insert malware, t

What kind of NSAware are you worried about, and why do you think buying new would lessen those chances? While a refurbisher could potentially insert malware, they're not going to do it for the NSA. Old Thinkpads are also generally well supported by libreboot/coreboot, so that's one less attack vector to worry about.