These things really aren't so far apart.

                    --> solve the problem
                  /
    see a problem
                  \
                    --> exploit the problem

Learn the tactics, techniques, and procedures employed by large corporate/state surveillance adversaries, identify gaps in their capabilities, secure your PERSONAL privacy based on your insider knowledge, anonymously distribute similar protection methods to the privacy-conscious, and get paid to do it? Sounds like a no-brainer to me...

Well this hits the nail on the head...