Actually, i am not sure what OP exactly means either.

I also had in mind that you can only protect your wallet file once.
Unfortunately i currently don't have access to electrum and therefore couldn't search through the settings.

Might definitely be possible that he protected the file with a 3rd party program (which would automatically mean encryption tho).


However, as long as it is somehow protected from access without a password everything is fine privacy-wise. Regardless of how he accomplishes that