Now we are going to move on to facial recognition tools that will allow you to search for a certain
face on the internet.
This will help you to find any similar or identical faces, along with all the links where these pictures
have been found.
Now, before you use the tools or websites that I'm going to show you, it's very important to use Google,
Bing, and Yandex to search for someone's face because you might be able to get a search result.
So the first website that I'm going to show you is called search for faces.
And in my opinion, this website is very useful if you are searching for someone who is from Russia
because it has databases of the famous Russian social media network, which is VKontakte, and this
one.
You can also see that it has over 126 million faces, and sometimes you'll be able to find the success
rate.
So here we can see that there are some faces from TikTok accounts.
So if you are searching for someone and you want to see whether they have a TikTok account.
Then you can click on proceed to search, and the chance that you are going to be able to get a search
result of the face that you are searching for is 10.5%.
You can also search on clubhouse and search in public records.
So in my case I'm going to search in TikTok.
So I'm going to click on proceed to search.
In your case you want to click on all of these options and upload the picture.
Because you might be able to find the person's picture on TikTok or on Vcontact or in clubhouse, etc..
But for this example, I'm going to search for Rishi Capra profile picture on TikTok.
So you want to click on upload to upload the person's profile picture.
And then I'm going to select this profile picture because it's very clear his face features can be easily
identified.
And then I'm going to click on upload.
And then you can specify the gender or the age just to narrow down the search results.
In my case I'm just going to leave it like this and click on search.
And since the success rate is 10.5%, we can see that we were able to find some people with profile
pictures and the score.
For example, this one is 58%.
I always look for 80% and above.
Now in our case we weren't able to find Rishi Kabra.
So what you can do is to come back and then go to another database and upload the picture and see whether
it's been found or not.
And all the links are going to be in the resources of this lecture.
The second website that I would like to show you is called Pimeyes, that will search for a person's
face across the internet and show you where it's been found.
Before we continue, I want to mention that the method I'm about to show you for decoding the URL on
pimeyes no longer works.
However, I am keeping this part in case you find it useful with another service in the future.
So I'm going to click on Upload photo and then I can add multiple photos to get better search results.
So I'm going to upload another one like this for example.
And then I'm going to say proceed to face search.
And as you can see this is the search result.
We can see that this is Rishi Kabir that we are looking for.
And this is another person.
Now we are interested in this picture.
If I clicked on it and then clicked on open website, it's going to ask me to get a subscription.
But there is a trick to reveal the full URL.
So what you want to do is that you want to right mouse click and then click on inspect, and then you
want to copy the link of the image, which is too long.
So you want to copy it.
And then you want to go to a website called Cybercafe.
You will find its link in the resources of this lecture and then paste the URL that we have copied like
this.
And then I'm going to remove the URL like this and remove the word proxy.
And now I'm going to convert this to a normal readable text by decoding this hex code.
So drag the option from hex from left to right.
And here we will be able to find the full link of this picture.
I'm going to copy it open a new tab, paste it and then hit enter.
And now we have downloaded this picture.
As you can see, sometimes you'll be able to find the link where this image has been posted.
But in this case it was hosted on Amazon servers and not on a public page.
Next I would like to show you a website called Face Checker ID.
This website was also for free and it will look for someone's picture in social media accounts, in
videos, news and blogs, websites and more.
All you have to do just to click on browse and then select the person's profile picture and then click
on Search Internet by face.
So as you can see, we were able to find this profile picture on github.com and a similar profile picture
on soundcloud.com.
Now we already have his SoundCloud account, but we don't have this GitHub account.
So if I come back to my notes and copy it his GitHub account, we can see a different profile picture
and not the one that we have uploaded.
So let's click on the first profile picture.
You can see that we need to have a subscription to find or view the link of this image.
Now there is a trick that I'm going to show it to you.
And I don't know whether these tricks are going to be patched or not, but I'm pretty sure that there
will be similar websites to Face Check and Pimp Eyes in the future and all.
What I'm trying to show you is some techniques that you might use in the future when you use similar
websites.
So right mouse click and then inspect.
And here on the right side we will see the image link.
So I'm going to click on it.
And from here you have two options.
You either download this profile picture and go to Google Bing or Yandex and search for it.
Or you go to Pimeyes and see where this image has been uploaded.
Or you can copy the link and then go to cybercafe.
Again, let me remove all of these and put the link that I have copied in here.
And then I'm going to drag the from base64 option to the right side.
And now it has decoded some of these text.
And if I scroll all the way down.
We can see the link where this image has been found, so I can copy it and open a new tab and paste
it.
And as you can see, we were able to find another GitHub account that belongs to Rishi Kabra that we
were not able to find before.
So I'm going to copy the link and put it in my notes.
So in this lecture you have learned how you can use multiple websites to search for a certain face across
the internet.
Pimeyes and face check are currently paid services, but you have learned how you can bypass this by
copying the URL and decoding it.
And please keep in mind that the method that I've showed you to reveal the full URL of a certain image
on pimeyes or face check might get patched in the future, but these are always methods that you can
use with other websites, and I'm 100% sure that there will be more websites that are going to be available
in the near future.