The always-interesting Apple Insider Web site — an independent news outlet for all sorts of Mac-themed speculations — has an interesting article about the possibility that new anti-Phishing measures being contemplated by the PayPal financial transaction network may — and I would emphasize may — block users of Safari, Apple's super-popular Web browser, from accessing the service.

If that were to happen, it's anticipated that the Mozilla Org.'s Firefox could fill the bill.

However, as the Apple Insider report indicates, this may become an issue for Mac users. My guess is that it won't, that Apple, Inc. — the "real" Apple, as it were — will figure out a way to work cooperatively with service providers such as PayPal. Eliminating phishing is, after all, in everyone's interest.

— Mark Kellner, The Washington Times