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On my part, I was @ 33C3 last year, and happened to attend this lecture

I knew that as a human being I had to help these people in any way I could. I talked to Robert Tibbo, who put me in touch with Marc, and I've been helping on the technical end of things in any way I can.

You can read the stories of our clients here:

Ajith

Vanessa

Supun and Nadeeka

We've also had reports that the Sri Lankan CID has been searching for our clients (see: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2073439/hong-kong-asylum-seekers-who-sheltered-edward-snowden-fear)

Sri Lanka's Security forces have a very poor record on human rights

And I can tell you first hand it's a fairly extensive and comprehensive process, even for non refugees (study permit, work permit, PR).

I'm a Systems Engineer/SRE/DevOps/Security guy (I wear many hats). I work remotely for a Y Combinator startup. I'd say which one, but we are a small org, so I'd be immediately identified. Management here is pretty sympathetic to this cause, and has been more than generous in letting me spend some time helping.

Marc and Michael are lawyers

That's not really in the scope of what we are doing. We're trying to help 3 families of refugees, who helped hide Edward Snowden in Hong Kong. They also have a well documented past.