With respect to the stock photos, they're downright terrible (and have been a constant source of jokes for us since the site was designed) but it's low on our priority list.
As for the security side of things, we have fairly advanced mechanisms in place that make it far more secure than the existing system. Of course, we could have something malicious in our product itself; this sort of accusation is one we fully expect we'll get at some point, but having a well known figure in the hotel access control market (not sure if I'm able to namedrop here, as I'm not sure if the business side is making that public right now or not) gives us at least some degree of credibility here, we think.
Totally agreed on the master keys, but it's a tough problem to solve for offline locks. We do have some things in the pipeline that will make this far, far more managable, but quite honestly I don't see them being economically viable for smaller hotels. Of course, updating the doors is simpler in smaller hotels anyway, but it's still an issue.
As for the security side of things, we have fairly advanced mechanisms in place that make it far more secure than the existing system. Of course, we could have something malicious in our product itself; this sort of accusation is one we fully expect we'll get at some point, but having a well known figure in the hotel access control market (not sure if I'm able to namedrop here, as I'm not sure if the business side is making that public right now or not) gives us at least some degree of credibility here, we think.
Totally agreed on the master keys, but it's a tough problem to solve for offline locks. We do have some things in the pipeline that will make this far, far more managable, but quite honestly I don't see them being economically viable for smaller hotels. Of course, updating the doors is simpler in smaller hotels anyway, but it's still an issue.
Thanks!