From the article: <i>And, as a result of this leak, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see the malware split into numerous different strains, as rival hacking gangs adapt the code for their own malicious ends.</i><p>This is the same "fragmentation" argument often made about Android or Linux or indeed, any open source software.<p>Has anyone ever checked that this prediction (for malware) ever comes true? I'm just a little bit skeptical of such a sweeping, unsupported argument that also keeps source code hidden from the people affected by it.