Do you believe the laptop battery fiasco maybe due to....

I wondered what happened to that battery recall solution that dell had.  I wondered if there was an admin in the CompuTrace system that forced the limit of the battery to 1 minute on purpose.  It goes for the same concept as LoJack.   There were rumors that LoJack for cars can limit the amount of gas it can use.  I just say this because Lithium Ion batteries do not really go bad that much.  (Did you know that the great CIA created that technology back in the 1960s)

I just think that the battery's serial number changes and it cannot be altered again through the remote CompuTrace service.  I used to have a CompuTrace admin account and I know a little bit of it but I am not employed at that corporation any more.  I know that a person can look up what software is being used on the computer and I know that it can be called it as stolen using the system, but I think someone can probably force a battery limit on it so to bypass that a person would just have to switch it out because the serial numbers do not match up to the original call in.

What do you guys think?