What we need is some way for the vast majority of the population who are not nearly as good at security as you are and never could be, to be able to access such sites securely.

The first step to that involves educating the media that the big scary dark web isn't just for drugs and other like minded Bitcoin slinging criminals.

Oh, I'd hazard a guess that the media is well-educated, and handily equipped with an agenda similar to advertisers and marketers employing dark patterns and pervasive analytics.

And I never claimed I was good at anything. But I did intend to point out that with advanced persistent threats in the mix, and nation state actors operating with effectively unlimited resources, failing to notice the difference between two vaguely similar nonces (in a situation where it matters) is going to get you hanged, depending on what you're trying to fly below radar.