> “The current barriers to these works include service passwords and digital locks,” the petition reads. “Commercial ice cream machines, such as the Taylor manufactured ice cream machines used by McDonald’s, frequently fall into disrepair when its daily pasteurization cycle fails. Circumventing the digital lock on the software would enable owners and repair professionals to diagnose and perform the necessary repairs to get these devices back up and running.”
They're talking about a safety-sensitive process failing and consequently locking out use... mere syllables before asking for the ability to circumvent locks.
Which prompts the concern that some fast food employees, their managers or small business owners, sketchier repairpeople, and Aliexpress gadgets are going to effectively use that lock circumvention ability to circumvent a safety feature, eventually killing children whose parents treated them to ice cream cones.