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Even if we get over the existential issue, the security risks there would be pretty big too. What if a hacker just makes the thousands of people mid-teleport disappear? Is it predefined point to point, or can you teleport anywhere? If so, can we prevent people from teleporting anything into anywhere?

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> can we prevent people from teleporting anything into anywhere?

Well, there's a game called FTL (very good Roguelike with real-time ship-to-ship combat) [0] that has teleporting bombs as a distinct class of weapons... So of course, it's not hard to imagine that matter teleporters could and eventually will be used to great offensive and invasive effects, depending what the laws of physics allow.

[0] http://subsetgames.com/ftl.html

Arthur C Clarke wrote a funny little short story called "Travel by Wire!" 80 years ago that speculated about a form of commercial teleportation

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