Re: but .. but
Why would there be any relationship between the security research done by a CS department, and IT hygiene practiced by the rest of the university population?
When a university has a notable cancer researcher in its medical school, that doesn't reduce cancer rates among the general population. Having a famous novelist in the English department doesn't significantly affect the students' taste in literature. A collection of top finance experts over in Business won't mean everyone else at the university is any better at managing their finances.
The fact of the matter is that even star professors remain largely unknown outside their fields at their own institutions, except in a few exceptional cases. While some members of the university population read at least some of those incessant press releases and local-research stories that universities inevitably generate, even with the best intentions it's impossible to remember much of that stuff for any significant length of time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
