(Never worked for intelligence agencies) I think working for intelligence agencies, especially taking technical work (think sigint, encryption/descryption, mal

(Never worked for intelligence agencies) I think working for intelligence agencies, especially taking technical work (think sigint, encryption/descryption, malware/malware defense, etc.) is very, very interesting, but improving humanity is a huge burden that no agency can shoulder. On the other side, I think someone mentioned that the work of the intelligence agencies is not to prevent wars, but to prevent world wars (not exactly what he said but I believe it is what he meant). From that perspective, they are "helping" humanity.