He abandoned the militants and rushed upstairs, but instead of heading to the toilet he made a beeline to room three-ten. Ethan proceeded to rummage through the various belongings and backpacks of the company members. Whenever he found a passport, he set it down and snapped a picture of the photo page. Though the identities were of limited value, he wanted to start gathering at least some intel, and that was a good start. Sometimes he found a militant's smartphone tucked away. On the Android models, all he had to do was pop the case and look behind the batteries to expose the serial number. He'd take a snapshot and then quickly replace the battery, closing up the phone. For the iPhone 4 model he found, he used one of his lockpicks to eject the SIM and then photographed the serial number engraved on the tray. Those numbers would prove useful to any JSOC or DIA embeds in the country, who likely had Stingrays with them—devices that imitated the signature of cellphone repeaters. Basically laptops with GSM cards, the devices could trick phones into connecting and sending their serial number and geolocation.
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