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by carapace 1405 days ago
Those are much more recent attacks. We're talking about a time when CRT screens were the norm, they are noisy enough to read from quite a distance.

> A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube

That causes a bit more signal than a keyboard, mic, or MEMS accelerometer, eh? :)