This is the Free Software Foundation's position, not the Electronic Frontier Foundation's. Those are very different organizations. The fact that you confuse their acronyms (and also that you apparently stopped reading after three paragraphs) makes me worried that you are conflating their positions.

Also: how does secure boot prevent your laptop from being "owned?". It doesn't. I will bet a significant fraction of that $300k that the exploit used against your friend was not pre-OS malware.