ICloud Keychain Bug - inherits setting of new machine

iCloud Keychain is a great idea that allows you to choose more complex, difficult to break passwords and keep them available for all you OSX Mavericks and iOS 7.0.3+ devices. Add this to Safari password suggestion tool, and you enhance security of your data tremendously. And so I happily upgraded my Macbook Pro and my iOS devices and changed my most important passwords. And the the big problem: I decided to upgrade the mac mini in my office. Problem is that, if you add a new mac to your collection, iCloud Keychain inherits the settings of the attached computer instead of asking, destroying all you have done before and making you reset all passwords, what may require hours of tedious work depending on your password collection.
Bad Apple. Very bad.

You could try to find the old ID as explained here: try to find it as explained here: Apple ID: How to find your Apple ID.  If you find it, you would then have to reset the password as explained here: iCloud: Change your iCloud password.
Or, you could just create a new Apple ID by going here: https://appleid.apple.com/account.
To create your iCloud account, you would then go to System Preferences>iCloud on the new Mac and sign in with the ID to create the account, then check the items you want to sync with iCloud.  Just be aware that each device/Mac can only create a maximum of three iCloud accounts.  If these have already been created on this Mac then you won't be able to create a new account without using a different iOS device running iOS 5 or higher (iPhoto, iPad, iPod touch) or Mac running OS X 10.7.5 or higher, if you have one.

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