Alex Payne (One of Twitter's earlier employees..) had written a nice article on why he does not work in Infomartion Security, quite a while ago.

http://al3x.net/2008/12/31/why-not-infosec.html

..the core point being,about how little attention genuine, path-breaking work gets, if security researchers DO NOT make an attempt to publicise it,quite radically.

These sure are not some random guys making a bold claim.. that work has been published in Usenix!