If you’re a Facebook user and are at the same time interested in doing whatever you can to help your country, you may have seen an odd advertising campaign there from Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service.

The Facebook ads bear text messages such as “Time for a career change? MI6 can use your skills. Join us as an operational officer collecting and analysing global intelligence to protect the UK.” Obviously, someone over there at the secret service thinks that an average superpokin’, donut throwin’, penguin fondlin’ Facebook fiend is spy material. When I think about it, perhaps they’re right - who else is better suited to do deep data analysis than someone who hasn’t got anything better to do than waste time on Facebook all day?

The SIS does not hide its presence on Facebook, either. There’s a public group with over 1,000 members; the only item of interest there, though, is a link to this test, which you can take to find out if you’re material for a SIS administrator. Looks like a great job, I mean, who wouldn’t want to spend time in that cheery cubicle with that wonderful 14” screen, all the secrets of the world at your fingertips? Now excuse me, I think I hear the sound of tear gas grenades exploding in the other room.