Dear students, Regarding the network security homework, we had a discussion with the course coordinator, as well as the coordinators for both the EMSE and MUSS masters. As result, we decided to offer the chance to everyone to be evaluated only on 3 homeworks (instead of four). In more detail, here are the two options:
If you submitted your homework prior to the leak (Thursday 13:23) then we will grade your submitted homework normally unless you send us an email by Monday, November 20, informing us that you prefer your submitted homework not to be graded. In that case you will be evaluated only on three homeworks. Since this group was not really affected by the leak, there is no option of submitting the new homework to replace the old one.
For everyone else (i.e., if you submitted after the leak, or if you did not submit at all) we will release a new homework by Monday. We will try our best to make the new homework as related as possible to the old one so that they are of similar level and if you did some work for the old homework you benefit from that. In any case, you can read the new homework and decide whether to submit a solution, or not to submit a solution at all. If you do not submit a solution to the new homework, then you will be evaluated on three homeworks. If you submit a solution to the new homework we will evaluate you on four homeworks. Needless to say, you cannot submit a solution to the new homework and then decide to be only evaluated on three homeworks.
We worked hard to come up with a solution that we believe minimizes the impact of this unfortunate situation. We understand that each of you may have been affected in a slightly different way by this mess, but we cannot do case-by-case arrangements.
Best regards, Juan