It wasn't private before, no. Captain Andor wrote this encryption, so he and likely anyone else with the skill or inclination can read this... hello, friends! But when you activate it, most people will be kept from reading, seeing, or hearing what you say. Well, if they're not already nearby.

( It's an absent minded explanation for what he now presumes to be a magically gifted young man. Who is not completely in charge of his own skills, as happens, when... well, when these things are new. )

I don't think you need to apologise to me. Emil, what had you get worked up at that time? Do you have any training that you work with to improve your control, so things like that don't happen as easily?

( Please don't say they have a good natured magical nuclear warhead child on board, that would be entirely too appropriate to how things have gone lately... )