LOL, he was questioned just two days ago by Swedish lawyers: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/europe/julian-assange-question...

I'm inclined to believe that he's all right, but to be fair, that "questioning" was through a third party, and Assange never faced them directly.

It seems as though he's alive and it would be quite a massive conspiracy if he turned out not to be:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/prosecutor-arrives-to-...

what is the significance of the insurance file hashes no longer matching the files?

None - they never did match the (encrypted) files.

WL commented on this conspiracy theory earlier today, both saying Assange appreciates the concerns that he's dead, and saying that "obviously" the hashes are for decrypted files, not the encrypted ones: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/798997378552299521

Y : X is compromised.

X : X is not compromised.

> they never did match the (encrypted) files

The pre-commitment hashes have always matched the encrypted files, up to this point.

This should provide some context. https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/5cz1fz/wikileaks_la...

That seems out of the blue, to me, though I don't follow it (my soul died long ago with seeing how bad this corruption is).

What indications are there you think he might have been murdered? Edit: Got trolled I think.