CFSworks's must-have Debian packages

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# These are the packages I tend to bring with me onto every Debian system I administer,
# and are therefore the packages I tend to install first thing in a fresh Debian system.
# Obviously, not all of them are necessary for a specific environment, so this list
# serves more as a baseline to pick from than a list of requirements.

# List is sorted in ascending order of "risk" to the system vs. likely usefulness
# (i.e. how likely it is to be abused by an attacker and whether it's more likely to
#  help a sysadmin than create a security nightmare)

bzip2
sudo
less
vim
ntp
screen
tmux
htop
curl
net-tools
iftop
iotop
mtr
tcptraceroute
strace
tcpdump
iperf
scapy

# If you need them, don't forget:
git
unzip