By consuming the Essence of the L337 Hacker you gain several boons.
*Perfect memory and unlimited storage.
*Beyond genius level intellect capable of nearly unlimited parallel thought trains along with the associated mental multi-tasking capability.
*Able to instantly parse and understand any form of code from the most basic machine language to the most abstract visual language, as well as various cyphers and other such encoding methods.
*You have an instinctual understanding of what exploits to use in any situation to accomplish both what you want and don't want to happen. This primarily works in computer programming but also extends into the more hardware aspect of technology as well.
*Just to be clear you can make and tailor to your needs any form of virus, malware, etc. as well as just making incredibly clever and clean programs of a non-infective nature.
*You are able to cause computer processes to go faster by increasing the speed at which you are imputing data, whether through typing or other.
*Your speed and accuracy in imputing and receiving data from a computer system through any form of interface is unmatched, even by devices that are specifically designed to use them.
*When in a large crowd you may loudly shout; "Hack the Planet!" And be perfectly understood by those you wanted to communicate without the crowd paying any significant attention to you despite how strange your actions may be.