FYI… I just saw this article on sfgate.com and was alarmed by the sheer ignorance and incompetence of the Indian consulate. It seems that they just dumped all applications into a dumpster without any regards to sensitive data. What’s more alarming is their cavalier attitude towards this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/07/BUGV8NVQNL1.DTL
The earlier article on this was:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/02/02/MNGHNNTLI81.DTL
This is not going to go away anytime soon.