It was reported recently that they are also doing the same thing with the CPU in some of their machines. As someone who has bought older Xeon CPUs to upgrade older PCs (often giving them years more useful life) that is frustrating.
Is it a Lenovo ThinkPad, or one of their other models?
That one was a yoga 2 pro. An unfortunate choice to stray from the T and X series on my part. Or, they could have chosen not to add software limitations and Superfish or at least made it clear before I bought it.
Some thinkpads have a whitelist for wireless chips in the firmware, that's known - but I am not sure how widespread it is.