They very much are, although in somewhat different ways. https://www.engadget.com/2007/04/21/laptops-and-flat-panels-also-vulnerable-to-van-eck-eavesdropping/

They very much are, although in somewhat different ways. https://www.engadget.com/2007/04/21/laptops-and-flat-panels-also-vulnerable-to-van-eck-eavesdropping/ https://www.engadget.com/2007/04/21/laptops-and-flat-panels-... Markus Kuhn has since discovered that by tuning into the radio emissions produced by the cables running into a monitor, hackers can garner the pixels one at a time, and carefully stack them together to form a picture of someone else's screen. Reportedly, Markus was able to "see a PowerPoint presentation from a stand 25 meters away (pictured)," and he also noted that laptops with metal hinges were particularly good targets as they tended to broadcast the necessary signals quite well. One of my favorite elements of The Laundry Files series, is the old spook who only uses a Memex machine because of van Eck phreaking.