[tor-talk] Including Tor into millions of products. (was: Andrew's May 2014)

[Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>]

Andrew wrote:
> # Highlights
> (...) 
>  - Talked to three hardware companies looking to integrate Tor into
> their products. Estimated customer based is thousands to 75 million devices.
>  - Talked to two software companies looking to integrate Tor into their
> products. Estimated customer base is 8 to 110 million installs across
> Windows and OS X.

The questions that pop in my head are:

1) What kind of products are that? (Businesses or End-Consumer market?)
2) What is the intended use-case? (Usage of the Tor network?
Contribution to the Tor network? Both?)
3) In any case, doesn't that make you face some challenges?
(Scalability, resources for downloads, size of consensuses, possibly
bridges cause trouble, e.g. the bridgeDB has to maintain a pool of
millions of bridges, maybe.)
4) In the case of those things being relays, can one predict what the
effect on network diversity will be?

Best regards,
Sebastian G. (bastik)