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There is no information stored in the monitor. And smashing a monitor (if a CRT) can be VERY dangerous as there are capacitors in the rear of the monitor that can blow up and throw shrapnel around.
On a similar note. My father once told me he was watching the news and they accidentally cut to a camera that was recording the "behind the scenes" type stuff. This (somehow) convinced him that made the whole cable TV operation a two-way street, allowing studios to record what was going on in the room his TV was in. :screwy: