talking to coworkers = deemed exports

[Major Variola (ret)]

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030623S0011

The Commerce Department considers some U.S. transfers of commercial
technologies to
foreign workers as exports. In some cases, U.S. companies may be
required to obtain a
deemed-export license before giving foreign-born employees access to
sensitive
technologies.

[shades of the old crypto days, where you couldn't ask a colleage from
another country
to review your code.. this time its China, India they're freaking about]